The trees are spaced.

The ’industriaus ’ settler

Ski/l with the axe.

Timberin g.

The idle settler.

Timber ships and rafts.

growing some distance asunder) he will be well satisfied with this rough commencement. [p. 24]

After a few years the roots rot sufficiently to be easily removed, and in the mean time the industrious settler goes on to clear more land, that is to say, cut down trees and burn for a further extension. I consider that the five acres so cleared will produce

plenty of corn and potatoes to feed a tolerable family, . He will moreover enjoy the satisfaction of seeing the value of his lands yearly increasing, as he cuts down the trees and extends his clearance; [p. 24]

One of the most necessary accomplishments is the exercise of the axe, at which the colonists are uncommonly dexterous, and I have seen people from England, Scotland, and Ireland, who, in the course of a few months, have become very expert, not only in cutting down trees, but lopping and squaring them after, in the winter time; and in settlements where there is timber fit for exportation, to cut and deliver it to the proprietor, who will accept it in payment for rent or goods. It is a most beneficial employment. [p. 25]

l have observed in this colony so general a want of emulation, that by far the greater number continue satisfied with their original log-house, and after clearing a sufficient quantity of land to supply them with food, and purchase the commonest necessaries of life, they make no more improvements, [p.25]

Yet I have heard some complain of the high rent, but it has been such as have occupied their farms for ten or twenty years, many of whom have not in cultivation five or six acres, spending but a small proportion of their time in labour, and the remainder in idleness, if not profligacy. [p. 26]

SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR THE COASTS AND HARBOURS OF THE ISLAND 0F PRINCE EDWARD.

THE ISLAND OF PRINCE EDWARD the first appearance is like a large forest rising out of the sea, and is a beautiful object; the lands, except where farms are cleared, are covered with lofty trees, [p. 28]

In those [i.e. Cardigan, Brudenell and Montague Rivers] many large ships have laden timber. [p. 28]

RICHMOND BAY or MALPEC, is a spacious harbour vessels usually complete their loading about a mile inside Fishery Island, but a considerable current runs there, and rafts of timber frequently break adrift in blowing weather, and on the ebb tide are carried to sea, and frequently a great part lost. [p. 30]

Holland Harbour is the most convenient part in the island for loading timber, where there is a very large quantity, also a saw-mill for cutting plank and board. [p. 31]

1. Clark, A. H. (1959) Three Centuries and the Island (p. 238) gives a date of 1819 for the publication of the pamphlet. 1819 was indeed the date of the magazine article, and it is possible that it was also the date of the first edition of the pamphlet. The catalogue for the PEI Collection (Robertson Library, UPEl) gives 1826 as the date of the ’second edition’ copy in their Collection, though there is in fact no date on the title

page.

2. The Sydenham Hills were at that time just on the southern edge of the city of London.