Some wood/and berries.

The main tree species.

Fires.

The soil.

The parts for sale easily cleared.

A we//- wooded part.

say, there succeeds from year to year a sensible aid of hay, owing to the moisture,

or the washing from the higher sloping grounds, and the occasional overflow of the rivulets. [pp. 4-5]

I have seen hops, thrown into the ground about the garden—fences, thrive luxuriantly in defiance of all farther neglect. The wild strawberry is natural to the country, as also quantities of raspberries, equal in flavour, I think, to the cultivated ones. They are fond of starting up in parts where the wood has been cut down, but the soil little cultivated afterwards. l have often been surprised with finding currant and gooseberry bushes in the woods, and chiefly in those parts which I have mentioned as being called swamps or intervals; but they had no fruit, nor did they seem to be but in a few places. In some open parts, in the extremity of the woods, near the sea, I have seen gooseberry—bushes with fruit larger than a pee. [p.71

The great bulk of the wood of the island consists of beech, mixed with much fewer quantities of black and white birch. maple, spruces. and some pines. In general it is a continued forest, but in many parts it has been over-run with accidental fires, which leaves the land clear, excepting as far as the younger growth of wood has accrued. Even the forest-parts are easier cleared than any I have seen elsewhere.

On the surface there are very few stones. There is an uncommon sameness in the quality of the soil, the variation consisting in the degree of lightness... lp. 9]

this portion [precise/y described by him lp. 27} as all that part of Lot 35 lying south of the Hillsborough River] has one of the best situations in the whole island. ...[He lists four advantages]: 3d, ln point of facility of clearing and employing the plough without delay as the wood is light and it is in many parts already so clear as to be easily arranged and reduced to fields. [pp. 2628]

On the point of the peninsula next to Hillsborough River [from his description, this is the peninsula between Johnson River and Glenfinnan River], there is a grove of wood, of which as much should be preserved from cutting down as would be shelter from the north. But I have always understood that where there is wood it is light enough to be easily cleared, and besides that there is enough clear for being proceeded upon with one or more ploughs lp. 37]

| now go to the third part of No.1 which is that lying between Johnson River on the east, and the division-line with lot or township No. 48 on the west: and between the river Hillsborough on the north, and the Great Johnson River marsh on the south it is a most beautiful and pleasant situation, and piece of land, l have also been informed that it is well wooded. lp. 39]

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