’Lofty pines ’.

Bears and lynx.

L umb en'n g in the Mirimichi,

Large trees.

'lmmense pines ’.

Bears and lynx.

Large trees.

Caribou antlers?

Bears and lynx.

A ’great fire ’.

Effects on the animals.

and Richmond Bay beaches. [3 Jan. 1878, p. 4, col. 1.]

Lots 12, 13 and 14: Originally the country around Port Hill was covered with very large and lofty pines, single trees of which would produce 4 and 5 tons of excellent timber.

bears and wild cats are still numerous. We saw the tracks of one of the latter animals while we were recently down west. We saw also some of the remains or the last lonely stragglers of great pines, which once towered in their majestic grandeur in our forest scene of the days gone by.

To purchase farms, the young men used to go to Mirimichi, N. Brunswick, to spend the winter at lumbering in the woods, and bring back their wages in

Spanish dollars in the spring. l21 Feb. 1878, p. 4, cols. 1 & 2.l

Lot 11:

This locality was once covered by an immense and grand old forest, pines and cedars prevailing. Cedars would be found in abundance with buts of 3 feet in diameter, and 65 feet high. Majestic pines were to be seen 5 and even 6 feet in diameter at the stump and 100 feet high and great huge hemlocks and spruce in great dense masses of branches and brush towering on tree trunks high in the

heavens. till 1842 there were no roads but blazes. [28 Feb. 1878, p. 4, col. 1.]

Alberton:

As late as 1820 where Alberton stands was a trackless wilderness. Immense pine monarchs of the old forest stood one hundred feet high, and 3 to 3V2 feet in diameter, over that region of country. Bears ands wild cats roamed at large unchecked. In 1847 the first attempt was made to open up a rough passage for carts. The path lay crookedly among numerous large pine stumps and trees.

[14 March 1878, p. 4, col. 1.] Miminegash:

The Pine, the monarch tree of P. E. Island's primeval woods, and the Juniper and Cedar especially, grew in this region of the country larger than elsewhere on this Island. The frame of the largest ship ever built in the Province was got here. Moose horns have been found in the woods here. Unlike other localities mentioned by us, bears and wild cats are now very numerous. Last year a Mr~ Doyle killed two of the latter animals with a stick, by hiding, watching his

opportunity and suddenly rushing at them. [21 March 1878, p. 4, col. 1.]

Miminegash ll:

About twenty years ago, a great fire swept across a part of this settlement, and on over towards North Cape. A small growth of wood now indicates the course of the flames. Bears have not been so numerous since. Many animals, wild and tame, were destroyed. The blaze would make great leaps from tree to tree, and while the creatures would be running to escape, flying sparks of embers would kindle flame ahead of them and soon they would be surrounded and engulfed by the devouring element. Rabbits tired out from running, could be easily caught in the fields. And even squirrels on the fences, aside from the fire, from exhaustion and bewilderment, would allow themselves to be tickled by persons touching their noses with straws and otherwise teasing and playing with them, without their moving away, so contented were they to have found refuge from greater danger. [28 March 1878, p. 4, col. 1.]

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