Finding carib ou an tiers.

Animals.

Birds.

A hurricane blew trees down.

Bears in C har/o tteto wn.

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Mice and the beech mast.

of the upper part besides. These trunks were used for making big canoes and also shingles. The spruce commonly were 3 feet in diameter and 100 feet high. Hemlocks 3 feet across the butt and of great height, with scraggy tops, also varied the dark wild forest scenery of these early times.

The first British settlers were Messrs Duncan McCallum and Peter Gregor. They came to these wilds in 1771. One day viewing the great dark wild forest standing and spreading out before them, one said to the other, "There may

some time be an end to the pines, but to the spruces never." [28 June 1877, p. 4, col. 1.]

Brackley Point II:

Deer were once very numerous on this Island, and especially in the Brackley Point Forest before being settled by the British. As late as seventy years ago when the primitive wilderness was being cleared up, hundreds of the antlers of this noble animal would be found. Not a farm would be stumped and plowed but a dozen of these would be discovered. None of the living animals, however, were ever seen on the Island by a British settler, so far as is known to the oldest inhabitant. The nearest to the animal's being discovered in this Province by British eyes is, old Mr. Alex. Anderson who lived to the age of 106, while clearing his farm in Bedeque, in 1811, found a deer's skeleton with a musket ball among the bones.

Bears were very common. The late Mr. John Shaw shot thirteen. At East Point a man climbing a tree when blue berries were ripe, saw eleven full grown bears at one sight. Wild cats, martins, otters, foxes, minks, and muskrats were innumerable. Wolves had crossed the Straits from the Mainland in winter, but didn't remain many years.

Wild geese, ducks, pidgeons, gulls and gannets abounded in immense numbers. Eagles were very common. Wild berries, wild grasses, wild flowers, and

marshes were without bounds except at the sea-shore. {5 July 1877, p. 4, col. 1.]

Brackley Point III:

In 1811, a terrible hurricane blew down all the trees in the settlement. The crew of a West India vessel in Rustico Bay at the time, declared that they never

saw worse in their native Islands. I18 Oct.1877, p. 4, col. 2]

Covehead ll:

Country Members of our Legislature would always carry on their backs their sessional stock of provisions with them to this city. At first they had a camp built in the woods where the Union Bank now stands he at the corner of Great George St. and Richmond St.], which locality was then a wild forest. While they were in Parliament assembled, a large bear entered their camps and ate their provisions, and when they returned they found little or nothing but the

bear's tracks. [1 Nov. 1877, p. 4, col. 1.]

Covehead IV:

Wild cats, long ago were very numerous in this settlement. They would kill whole flocks of sheep in one night, leaving no other mark than a small wound on the neck, where they sucked the blood till each sheep was dead. They became very cunning in their experience with the early settlers.

Every year that beech nuts were plentiful, field mice would be a great pest. They would come out of the woods, and in one night, cut down whole fields of wheat and other grain, often while nearly ripe, and leave it lying without doing

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