The first timber ship.

A forest fire.

The forest at New London.

Bears.

A lumber camp.

Beech mast as food.

Fire at South west River.

A 'dense hardwood forest ’.

anything else than merely levelling it down.

Old David Lawson brought out quite a number of immigrants to this Island in his vessel, on condition that the father of families would give him two years' work after they would arrive. The first ship laden with timber that ever left this Island was his, from Georgetown, loaded by the labor of those with whom he had bargained.

The first church in Covehead was built in 1808 on the old MiIIar farm, and was

burnt by a forest fire that had been raging. Another was built in the same spot

in 1823, [22 Nov. 1877, p. 4, col. 1.]

New London II: New London was originally covered with a dense forest of immense spruces, hemlocks, pines, firs, beeches, birches and some oaks.

In this forest bears were very numerous. The heavy tramps of the brutes trotting in the dark around the little log homes would be heard by the inmates through the weary nights. In the mornings owing to their being so very numerous, the strong, wild animal smell of them, where they would be sleeping around, would greet the nostrils of the people as they would emerge from their primitive dwellings. Often in going outside cubs would be found aloft overhead, having climbed the trees near the cottage. On one occasion a cub was killed in this situation. The meat was roasted, but not being much relished, it was thrown to a pig. As soon as he smelt the bear meat, though nicely fried, he squealed like as if he had become crazy, and rushed into the dwelling house for refuge. [Other bear stories are given for Campbellton (at New London), Park Corner, and Stanley Bridge]

Even as late as 1837, bears prowled about the dwellings so numerously as to carry off pigs and sheep from the outbuildings. In 1841 at Millvale, before it was settled, bears would prowl around the lumbermen's camp so, that it was

with difficulty they could be kept out. [29 Nov. 1877, p. 4, col. 1.]

New London III:

several families in 1774 settled for part of the summer and all the winter of that year at Point Prim, and afterwards going to other parts of the Island, formed our first settlements. These dug clams where they could find them, and many were so emaciated that others have carried them out to the woods on hand barrows to be fed on beech and other nuts

In 1826 a terrific fire was raging in the dense forest south from this spot [i.e. Johnston's mill, at Long River]. It came rushing down before the south wind leaped across the Southwest River, 600 yards broad at that part, and caught the immense trees on this side. The mill and the little home in the forest were threatened with inevitable destruction. The settlers hastened to the rescue. They deluged the house and mill with water to prevent the sparks from taking hold, felled trees and used every precaution. The house [and] mill miraculously escaped, though the devastating element swept past and all

around, and left a little oasis in the surrounding desert of black burnt waste. 113 Dec. 1877, p. 4, col. 1.]

Malpeque:

What is now Malpeque, was then [i.e. at the time of its first settlement in 7770] a dense unbroken forest of immense hardwood chiefly. and some softwood. Huge trees extended even to the banks of the seashore, river edges

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