The barrens. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The road to 
     
     Egmont Bay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A raft of Yeo '3. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Some pines 
     
     still standing. 
     
    
   
   
    
     North along the 
     
     Western Road. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shooting a 
     
    
   
   
    
     passenger pigeon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The barrens. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barrens...which appeared extensive 8! of a hopeless white soil. passing down to 
     
     Trout River side over some Marshy Land [and taking] a Canoe made of a single 
     
     pine, we came over [the Trout River]3 like Tritons. Back to Yeos... 
     
    
   
   
    
     The fol/o wing day was entirely taken up with a journey across the Lot to inspect its western 
     
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     share. 
     
    
   
   
    
     started to ride across the Lot at 9. Back past Macleans Saw Mill up hill over 
     
     a long barren towards Cascumpecque & then turned to the Westward over a Road of 
     
     connection with the new Western Road (which is thro a fairly wooded Country)5... 
     
     The route is clear, but the Stumps not yet removed. Went on towards Egmont Bay 
     
     crossing the new Western Road thro a track which has been made in the woods to 
     
     bring away the Hay from Egmont Bay Marshes & went on to them about a mile & a 
     
     half — occasional swamps 8| the woods getting softer, that is spruce firs 8ica till we 
     
     came to Robs Creek which used to be considered within Lot 13 6... Found the Canoe 
     
     near a Prominent point between Robs Creek & Scots Portage paddled in it to Scots 
     
     Portage River... We landed to look at an old Clearance on a low but bold 
     
     promontory between Scots Portage and Sheep River — the Land looks imprcvable tho 
     
     the Timber is small. Yeo & | paddled on at Sheep River ...[there was] a Boat 
     
     attending a Raft7 of Yeos | landed at a promontory between Sheep and Ox 
     
     Rivers. Sweet grass upon it at apparently a fine Soil.... It seems to be the rendezvous 
     
     for the Timber Yeo bags or cribs. Struck into them [the woods] in a SE direction 
     
     thro some boggy Paths & soft woods which led us out thro MacNeills clearances, 8i 
     
     thro Sheep River at a narrow spot where Huggins & Yeo are competitors for building 
     
     a Saw Mill, but it will probably be used principally in cutting the few Pines remaining. 
     
    

    
     . Proceeded thro some good woods at first then occasional Bogs and again 
     
     spaces where there were a few Pines still standing & traces of mine having been 
     
     Plundered 8. Passed a stream perhaps upper part Ox River 9. We lost our way once 
     
     & the way in which the horses placed their feet to overcome the many obstacles 
     
     roots and fallen trees opposed to their progress was very clever. The way was so bad 
     
     / somewhere near the boundary between 13 & 14 from windfalls 8ica that we took 
     
     two hours to make 4 miles. Well timbered in general till the last 1/2 mile before we 
     
     entered the Western Road which was an entangled Mass of Trees & Barrens. Turned 
     
     to the North & rode thro the Lot in that direction as far as the Western Road passed 
     
     within my limits — the first mile thro Barren in which we shot a Wood Pigeon — then 
     
     a mile thro very good Land then a short barren, and afterwards another mile of good 
     
    
   
   
    
     hard woods up to Pashaws Clearance where we turned into the Road we had come 
     
     from Lot 13 N side in the morning 
     
    
   
   
    
     Friday August 28. ...passed some hours in talking to the Tenants A settler on the 
     
     Mill Road complained of swamps on his farm, which is difficult to obviate to his 
     
     satisfaction as if taken off the Tenants would finish in only paying Rent for the best 
     
     & the swamps are said to be cultivable tho not the barrens. Yeo gave me in the 
     
     morning a statement that from Lot 1 to 14 inclusive there are 100,000 acres of 
     
     Barrens in the Island & he thinks nearly 1/3 of Lot 13 is of that description, & from 
     
     what I saw yesterday He may be right. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the early evening of 28 August they set off for Charlottetown. Stopping overnight at 
     
     Miscouche, they continued the next day, this time along a southern route via Bedeque, Tryon 
     
     and Crapaud, stopping for luncheon' at Joseph Pope’s residence in Bedeque: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr Pope... is... an acute & able Man. | see He is inclined to respect all Property 
     
     except that in Timber which Even he who is reckoned a high principled Man gets 
     
     when he can without any question of ownership. Set off from Bedéque at 1 to 
     
     Tryon where we stopped a few minutes at a neat farm of Lords, & then drove thro 
     
    
   
   
    
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