Lot 29.

Ship—building on—going.

Lots 47 and 53.

’Partridges ’

The protection of the timber.

Lord Westmoreland and Melvilles fine Lot 29 near Crapaud — Rivers or little Coves on the Seafront with the back of the farms running up to fine woods, then thro 30 a fine well wooded Lot

On 7 September they set off on a two day jaunt up the north side of the Hillsborough River to St. Peters and Georgetown:

. set off for St Peters. After passing Sir J Montgomerys well settled Lot 34 Passed the McDonalds Townships the last little cultivated we walked to see a bridge making over the Hillsborough with Mr Stewart belonging to the late Paymasters family which is finely situated on the Left side of the River in which Park fine Grounds have been laid out & the trees judiciously thinned — arrived soon after 4 at Mr Worrells There were seven Vessells building in the Woods adjoining this fine bay of considerable Tonnage. [Mr Worrell] allows them He his tenants] to cut down what they please on his lands.

Wednesday Sept 2. Off in our tandem at 6 [am]... an hour to the head of the Bay & then turned to the SSE by a new Road to the head of the Cardigan River thro Lot 41 the corner of 54 & 53 and until we reached the Cardigan the Road laid thro undisturbed Woodland — Two miles of the way difficult & unfinished the rest tolerable — some partridges crossed the Road — when cooked they are the size & colour of a Spring Chicken Arrived at a fine farm of Mr Owens on the Cardigan before 10 set off & reached the ferry over the Hillsborough at V2 past 5. Bad Land the first 10 miles then fruitfull land & good farms round the heads of the Vernon & Orwell and Pownal Bays.

Friday Sept 4. Made my arrangements for Lot 13 The greatest difficulty is about the Protection of the Timber for which a resident agent would be the only security 8| He would require to be most vigilant.... At 13 the largest Trees I saw in

Hem/oaks any numbers are the hemlock firs, but they are principally used in wharves & are not at L0? 73- consd [considered] applicable to shipping. 1. The road passes through Lot 22 from just past Hunter River to just before Fredericton.

The "Reserve”, he says in the journal, was a piece of land forming "the confluence of the two branches of Trout River" that he had ”destined for a Proprietors Residence”.

In the short diary he is more specific as to the spot where they crossed: ”Crossed Trout River at the Mouth in a canoe swimming our horses".

Unusually, Seymour made a copy of this day's journal entry on loose sheets which survive among his papers [CR 1 14A/565]. The copy differs in a few details — where these differences pertain to his forest descriptions, l give the alternative version in the footnotes that follow.

The copy clarifies this somewhat: "Rode past MacLeans Mill Saw [sic]. Up hill over a long barren towards

Cascumpec & then turning to the westward about five miles thro a tolerably well wooded country to Western Road."

The copy has a variant of this: "then went back to the point at which we had entered the Western Road & next cont. west opposite for less than a couple of miles rather swampy at first mixed woods then soft

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In the copy the raft is described as a ”log raft” — with log struck out.

The copy has a variant of this: "& spaces where there were a few good pines & evident signs of the plunder of others going on".

The copy has: ”probably upper part of Sheep River".

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