Uncleared 
     
     wood/and kept 
     
     for fuel. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Burnt woods. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Log houses. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mount Ste wart. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ne w G/asgo w. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Attitudes to 
     
     the scenery. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Loading timber 
     
     at Cascumpec. 
     
    
   
   
    
     penetrated twenty chains he would have cleared twenty acres, it gave him little 
     
     trouble about what became of the rest, so there remained a sufficient quantity of fuel 
     
     for himself and his descendants; and the same feeling subsists to this day in most 
     
     parts of the country; and a man takes and pays for 100 acres of land, while he 
     
     cultivates from five to twenty only. And this because he does not wish to leave 
     
     himself without the means of obtaining fuel [pp. 30- 31] 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is next to impossible for [the intending settler] to judge of the quality of the land 
     
     from those of the adjacent half cleared lots, if there be any; land while in the first 
     
     process of being converted to meadow, presenting much the same appearance that 
     
     many other manufactured articles do, in the first state of manipulation. The half burnt 
     
     and blackened stumps have a melancholy look in the spring and autumn, when 
     
     contrasted with the bright verdure in the one, and variegated hues of the forest in the 
     
     other season of the year; and it is with some difficulty his mind admits the fact, that 
     
     the whole Island was once in the same cheerless state; nor can he well turn to the 
     
     neighbouring settlers for correct advice in his difficulty; if they wish to discourage 
     
     others, that they may themselves cull out the best of the ship and other timber on the 
     
     unlocated part of the lot there will be no end of narratives on the badness of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     land . If an emigrant must settle in the woods, let him be careful to look at the 
     
     appearance of the settlement; in general he will soon be able to see whether the 
     
     inhabitants are thriving or likely to thrive. [pp. 31- 32] 
     
    
   
   
    
     A word or two, by the way, on the subject of log houses. Large logs, with the bark 
     
     on, or rudely hewn, and placed one above another, connected at the corners; covered 
     
     as to the roof, with sheets of birch bark, the interstices between the logs stopped 
     
     with moss and clay, one door and one window, and a wattled chimney, does not 
     
     present, it must be confessed, the most flattering indications of comfort within. But, 
     
     in this ”appearances are deceitful" [p. 32] 
     
    
   
   
    
     At a little distance on, and on the other side of the river, is Mount Stewart [i.e., the 
     
     estate of the late John Stewart] It was originally cultivated by the French; the 
     
     ridges left by the plough are quite easily seen, though the land is covered with good 
     
     large timber, and very ornamental too. [p. 36] 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Glasgow Bridge Pause for a few moments on the summit of the high hill 
     
     which overlooks the river and commands an extensive view of the well cultivated 
     
     fields and comfortable homesteads of the village The view is a fine one and would 
     
     be so termed in any country; but when you reflect that about thirty years since it was 
     
     as dense a forest as that you see in the distance. [p. 40] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Most of the people in this, as in all new countries, have little or no idea of the 
     
     pleasure to be derived from the contemplation of fine scenery. [At New London] I 
     
     was pointing out to a young and, in his way, a very intelligent man the beautiful, as 
     
     it appeared to me, alternation of wood and water, forest and meadow, hill and valley, 
     
     which are so conspicuous at every turn. What a splendid place! | exclaimed. It is not 
     
     amiss, said my companion; but it would be much better if it were not for these 
     
     confounded hills, and these cursed crooks in the river. To this view of the matter I 
     
     could make no reply. [p. 42] 
     
    
   
   
    
     . in Cascumpeque or Holland Bay the water is so deep, and the shore so bold, 
     
     that a large vessel can load timber a few yards from the bank. Cascumpeque 
     
     harbour deserves a rather more minute description. The Harbour takes a sweep to 
     
     the Southward, having on the one side good improved farms, terminating in what is 
     
     called the "Point Farm” and on the other, Savage Island, which is covered with 
     
     pine wood, and forms a perfect shelter for the harbour On the South is the ”Black 
     
     Bank", a large tract of land, part of Lot 1 1, composed entirely—to the extent of some 
     
     thousand acres, and having a depth of at least ten feet—of peat moss, excellent for 
     
    
   
   
    
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