situated two and a half miles up the river, where it; they would sell cheaper by the bushel than there is a large saw-mill and two ship yards; the by the hundred bushels; pay their tithes mostly harbour is capacious; several vessels of consider-in kind; sell little, buy less; are no good to anyable tonnage were loading at both places; a body else, and not much to themselves. steam tow-boat was also moving round, the only Twelve miles from Richibucto, the travellers thing of the kind in these waters: the enterprise stopped a few hours in a village rejoicing in the of the New Brunswickers seems to run in any euphonious name of Kouche-i-bouguac, commonly other direction than in that of travelling arrange- and barbarously mis-pronounced Kish-ma-gwack. ments; those of them who travel must have lots The Rev. Robert Cooney has not given its signiof time on their hands, judging by the small ac-fication. It consists of two blacksmiths' shops, count they make of it. one mill, and the ruins of another, a store, two About the time of the sojourn of the before- taverns, and about a dozen houses. After leaving mentioned knowledge-seeker, there was a grand- this place, the Acadians are fewer and the land ploughing-match in Richibucto, whereunto jour-better cultivated. After an additional ride of 26 neyed sundry persons from divers parts. There miles, the travellers were safely deposited and were four prizes and three competitors. Common comfortably housed in the town of Chatham, Mimen would have been somewhat flustrated touch-ramichi river, whereof a description will appear ing the disposal of the fourth prize-but not so in the proper place. these mighty men of the field; they concluded to try again for the fourth, and one of them won it. NO. II. A few days afterwards the before-mentioned THE explorers having fortified the inner man by knowledge-seeker again set forth on his explor- sojourning in Chatham some time at the quiet and ing expedition among the blue-noses, one of comfortable establishment of Mr. John Hea, set whom persuaded a quadruped to exert her supe- forth on a perilous journey of 106 miles on a rior muscular capacity in conveying himself and frosty morning in an open waggon, wherein were the philanthropic explorer 38 miles further to the packed seven passengers and driver, much after Miramichi river, through a country abominably the manner of herrings in a cask, only not "flat, stale, and (mostly) unprofitable," the latter covered: this being probably the height of "com from bad management rather than from any na- fort," in the estimation of the stage proprietors. tural deficiency. The principal productions All future way-farers travelling by Kelly and thereof are potatoes, spruce, hackmatack, and Orr's "comfortable stages from Chatham to rampikes. An Acadian Frenchman with a horse, Fredericton are recommended, as a preliminary cart, and a whole bushel of potatoes, was met operation to get chopped into mince-meat or about seven miles from Richibucto, proceeding pounded into a jelley, and then get put in Indiato that place in order to dispose of his cargo. rubber bags, by undergoing this process they will The blue-nose aforesaid asked him the price. pack much better and not be incommoded by About that matter, however, he was in a state of further pressure. The operation had better be blissful ignorance, but probably realized the performed at once than by slow torture. The enormous sum of 1s. 8d. all told. There were explorers, with six other miserable wretches likewise seen sundry specimens of the manufac- under the same sentence, having paid the sum of tures of the country, which should have been sent thirty shillings for the privilege of being tortured as such to the Great Exhibition, where they twenty-eight hours, took his position on the edge would no doubt have attracted considerable at- of a seat, one leg inside, the other out-half tention-to wit, cart wheels without spokes, the squeezing the life out of the unfortunate wretch lower portions projecting about a foot beyond in the centre: the other passengers were in much the upper; an excellent contrivance for runaway the same relative positions, the seats being calcu horses, the amount of motive power required to lated to hold two passengers each, but three draw the machine being so great as to absorb crammed into, or on the edge of, two seats. One nearly all the energies of the animal, leaving none gentleman privileged on account of the length of for superfluous antics. his nether extremities, sat in the front seat with the driver. The passengers were consoled by the information that only 60 miles on the road, a large and comfoatable night-stage would be provided. The concern passed through a country rather picturesque, up the south-west branch of The explorer was informed that it was difficult to induce the Frenchmen in those parts to sell more than a bushel of potatoes at a time, and that although a large quantity of surplus potatoes was raised by them, it was very difficult to get at and pure air around, form a combination of unsurpassed magnificence. Miramichi river-the houses, however, mostly small, and the farms neglected for the more hazardous and less profitable pursuit of lumbering. The residents along the banks which appear Much of the land appeared to be of superior to be thickly settled, are said to be nearly all quality, and a small portion well cultivated, but descendants of the soldiers of a Highland reginot an orchard or even fruit tree was visible the ment disbanded in this neighbourhood shortly whole distance of over 100 miles from Newcastle after the Revolutionary war. Early in the to Fredericton. About two hours after sunset morning the establishment put in for supplies at the establishment arrived at a small place called a place about 14 miles from Fredericton. The Boystown, consisting of about a dozen houses-explorer, being a lineal descendant of the Wanderthe only village on the road. Here the horses ing Jew, and dreading another dose of pork-chops, were changed-not much for the better. The passengers having packed away a quantity of fried pork in their interiors, were themselves packed away into another open waggon about the same size as the first. All that frosty night, "for many and many a weary mile" they journeyed on painfully-the explorer was equally unable to sleep or keep awake, and presumes the others were in a similar predicament: he cannot say much about the road for the next 24 miles, but concludes it to be thinly settled, and not to partake much of the sublime. decamped down the road: he afterwards ascertained that his apprehensions were ill-founded. They remained about three hours, probably to give the explorer a full opportunity of observing and describing the scenery of the Naashwaak, and showed the immense muscular strength that long oats will infuse into horse-flesh, as the roads, from the thaw, were twice as heavy when they started as when they stopped. The explorer, meanwhile, walked slowly down the banks of the river, turning ever and anon to gaze in wrapt delight on the ever changing, ever beautiful landscape. Judging from observation, he arrived at the At length, fatigued by want of sleep and long conclusion that, whips form a leading item in the walks the preceding twenty-four hours, the ex expenditure of the company, probably more so plorer sat down and slept; was awakened by than the article of oats-those latter that are carriages going to market, and after waiting a used seem to be mostly of the long species, if the considerable time the stage made its appearance. appearance of one of the animals forms any About a mile further on it was discovered that criterion. The appearance of the said horse the frame-work of a horse had given out, notwithreminded him of an incident that occurred some standing the liberal allowance of long and sheaf years ago while he was engaged in making oats wherewith he had been supplied. The pilot enquiries concerning the social, moral, intellectual left the crew and passengers to obtain more and pecuniary position of the residents of Mark-motive power. The passengers having waited ham, Scarborough and York townships: when impatiently some time, concluded to make a fire in the latter he was asked, if he made horses; somewhat surprised at the query, he replied, that he was not engaged in that branch of manufacture, and desired to be enlightened touching the purport of the enquiry. The querist replied, that from the appearance of the animal driven by the explorer, he had inferred that, having erected the frame-work of a horse, he had not yet found time to fill it up! Slowly rolled on the weary hours of night, and rapidly rolled the stage with its load of agglomerated bipeds—the dark; blue moonless, but starlight firmament grew pale in the east. In the grey dawn the Naashwaak, a tributary of St. John, was crossed. The scenery on many parts of this river is very beautiful and varied. The symmetrical forms of the spruce trees which here grow abundantly; the windings of the river, the flat, fertile, alluvial lands on the bank, and the hills clothed with verdure, and crowned with evergreens, a clear sky above, clear water bolow on the road. Lulled by the heat into a state of blissful unconsciousness of things before him, the explorer dreamt of Muddy Little York, absent friends, peach-preserve and apple dumplings, and was quite comfortable until the arrival of the pilot dispelled these illusions, and reinstated the sad realities of New Brunswick staging, fried pork for supper, and no breakfast. The pilot had failed in his mission. No horse could be obtained for four dollars to go ten miles and back in place of the "used up "animal, so the pilot concluded, by a liberal expenditure of long oats, an extra feed of meal and water, and by getting the passengers to walk most of the remaining distance, to fetch the establishment to Fredericton. As they only drove the horse eighty miles per day in two stages, (Sundays excepted,) and administered as many long oats as the animal desired, it is clear that neither over-riding or under-feeding had anything to do with his exhaustion-he was only driven forty miles at one stage and fed with sheaf oats, meal and water on the way. It is rugged, sublime and infinitely varied; the houses therefore, quite clear to any right-minded person less numerous, though still thickly scattered; that, the aforesaid stage proprietors are fully high and distant hills in every direction of entitled to a medal from the society, for the pre-curiously diverse forms; the river expands into a vention of cruelty to animals. Some unreasonable lake, but as we near St. John its channel is somepersons, however, insisted that being tied to the what narrowed by numerous rocky islands; off horse's heels and dragged forty miles over a the left bank stretches far away Lake Kennerough road would be more appropriate treatment. becasis, magnificently encircled by high hills, Nevertheless, the whole establishment arrived gloriously beautiful, blue and distant hills piled at Fredericton without the loss of a man: how on hills, until they are almost undistinguishable long the horse survived is unknown to this de- from the pure azure above them. In Canada ponent. Peace to his ashes! West they would be called mountains. NO. III. "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood." Land of the mountain and the flood, is almost as applicable to many parts of the Eastern Provinces, as to the land of Burns. "Land of the mountain and the flood." After a brief sojourn in the pleasant and handsome city of Fredericton, the before mentioned individual took passage in a steamer for St. John. The love of the beautiful and sublime, which For some time after leaving Fredericton, the is closely allied to, if not absolutely identical with, scenery, though picturesque, is rather tame, the the love of the perfect, can only be adequately banks are densely settled, but no village between nourished in a country of hills; hence great poets, it and St. John, except one about a mile off the prophets, reformers and philanthropists, have bank: there are no wharves or stopping places mostly arisen in hilly countries. The poets, the whole distance. The boat, however, stops painters and sculptors of Ancient Greece and whenever a small boat puts out, and will also Modern Italy drew their inspiration from the hills stop to put off a passenger, ringing a bell to give by which they were surrounded. Rome, that notice for a boat from shore; they probably lose ruled the world, was a city of hills. The Swiss, less time in this way than by stopping at wharves: unequalled for bravery and love of freedom, live a few small orchards are visible at some places. in a land of mountains. The Scotch, unexcelled The country must have been long settled, as the by any nation for undaunted perseverance, unfields are free from stu.nps for some distance back yielding courage, unquenchable hatred of wrong, and the vicinity of the houses shaded and orna-keen intellect, and great capacity of adaptation, mented by planted trees: the dwellings appears appropriately inhabit the comfortable but not showy,—mostly frame build. ings, no log houses. Here as on the Naashwaak and other rivers in the Eastern Provinces, are large tracts of flat rich land on the banks and islands in the river, sometimes overflowed; this land is called "intervale," and is very fertile and valuable, producing enormous crops of hay and aftergrass, from two-and-a-half to three tons of hay per acre, mostly inferior to English hay for horses, but said to be much superior for fattening cattle. Some of these would produce English hay altogether; at other islands and flats it is mixed. This land on the St. John is worth £20 to £25 per acre. Good common land in similar situations, £2 to £2 10s. cleared, or £4 to £4 10s, uncleared. The stacks of hay are mounted on a kind of scaffolding to keep them from high water, tides, &c. Cattle are turned on to graze on the aftergrass in the fall, and fatten rapidly on it. On the river Annapolis, in Nova Scotia, most of it Is dyked to keep out the tide. The intervale on the St. John is in a state of nature. At about thirty miles from St. John the character of the scenery changes and becomes wild, England is mainly a hilly country; there are a few level parts, but nobody of consequence except cotton lords and country squires was ever born in them. "The green hills of Erin," are the birth places of a race or mixture of races who under favorable circumstances are excelled by none, equalled by few in genius for poetry, painting, music, oratory and general literature. The most energetic, ingenious, intelligent and refined people on the American continent-the New Englanders-inhabit a country of hills, rocks and mountains. The Israelites, having been slaves 400 years in a level country, in fulfilment of their high destiny, were removed to the land of their inheritance, appropriately "a land of hills and valleys," Deut. xi. 11, a country of: surpassing beauty. There prophets and poeta unequalled in any other age or country, drew the breath of inspiration, there sang the "sweet singer" of Israel: there gushed forth the blissful visions of Isaiah. The language of inspiration from Genesis to Revelation is full of allusions to mountains and hills. "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so is the Lord round about them that fear him. Ps. xcv. 2. The strength of the hills is His also. Ps. xcv. 4. I will lift mine eye unto the hills. Ps. cxxi. 1. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. Isaiah lv. 12. The everlasting mountains were scattered: the perpetual hills did bow. Habakkuk iii. 6." The above are but a few specimens of the numberless beautiful and appropriate allusions to hills and mountains in every book of the Bible. The Law was given on Mount Sinai: the transfiguration took place on "a high mountain." John the Revelator "was carried by the spirit into an exceeding high mountain." Rev. xx. 10. The Redeemer of mankind passed His earthly life among hills and mountains; the mount of Olives was His favorite resort. There, amid scenes of glorious beauty: there, amid hills, valleys, rocks and mountains, were first uttered the words of eternal life: there the aspirations of unbounded love first found utterance. It is measurably fitting that serfs should inhabit the steppes of Russia;-pastoral barbarians roam over the plains of Tartary;-semi-civilized centaurs gallop across the pampas of South America, or pork eating braggadocios chew tobacco on the prairies of the West. Such places may do for inferior races: the valley of the Mississipi to raise pork and grain; but the place to raise men and women is a land of hills, rocks, rivers, valleys, ocean and mountains: hence the future greatness of the Eastern Provinces. ASTONISHING DISCOVERIES OF BRITISH AND UNITED STATES WRITERS CONCERNING BRITISH AMERICA. As it is one of the most important functions of the Anglo-American Magazine, to disseminate information concerning the peculiarities of British America, it is presumed that the following is too valuable to be lost; facts are stated on high authority (?) whereof residents are either profoundly ignorant, or entertain a contrary opinion; it is important that they should unlearn their error, and rely less on their own biassed vision, than on the impartial testimony of travellers and compilers of geographies, newspaper articles, &c., who having no personal interest in the matter, and in many cases, never having seen the Province, may be supposed entirely free from prejudice. lation of Canada West is now upwards of 500, 000, that of Canada East nearly as much." The census returns for 1850 give about 900,000 to each. Another United States paper recently discovered that vessels of 500 tons burden could enter the Port of St. John at high water. The "natives," are, however, under the hallucination that no vessel, building or built, can touch bottom at any time of the tide; the existence of a bar is indignantly denied by the Pilots. In a school book published under the superintendence of the National Board of Education in Dublin, will be found the following notice on the title page. "Sold by H. Cliff, St. John, Halifax, Canada." It will be seen that this celebrated gentleman, Mr. Patrick Bull, who is probably the writer of the above, has thus effected by a stroke of his pen, what Colonial politicians have been vainly endeavouring to effect for many years; viz. a Union of the Colonies. The benighted inhabitants of these regions would, however, be somewhat puzzled to recognize the locality therein mentioned, the book is greatly used in the schools in British America. In the 4th book of lessons, issued by the same publishers, is to be found the following authentic in formation. "New Brunswick is a large country to the north-west of Nova Scotia. Some parts of it are hilly and watered by fine rivers, but the whole country is almost an unbroken and magnificent forest (?!) The inhabitants are much engaged in the timber trade, this is carried on by a set of men called lumberers, who cut down the trees in the depth of winter, in the heart of these immense woods. * In the spring, when the ice melts, and the rivers are full, they send down the timber in vessels or in rafts to Halifax, whence it goes to England." A raft on the Bay of Fundy would be a novel spectacle. To cross the Atlantic in a wash tub with a hole in the bottom would be an undertaking trifling in comparison with crossing the Bay of Fundy on a raft. Speaking of Nova Scotia. "The inhabitants are partly French, partly Scotch, and partly Indians." It is generally considered there, that nearly all are descended from U. E. loyalists and British settlers, neither of whom intermarry to any extent with the Acadians or Indians. These latter are comparatively few. "Its capital is Halifax, a place whence much timber is exported." Some say imported would be much An illustrated magazine published in Boston having a large circulation in many parts of British America, discovered in 1851, that "The popu- nearer the mark. "The chief towns of Upper Canada are Kingston and York, both on Lake Ontario," where is York? Toronto and Hamilton perhaps only exist as yet in imagination. "The climate of Canada is very cold in winter, and the country is buried in snow, (grey-mud) five or six months in the year." Canada is buried deep in snow for five or six months in the year; and that horses, oats, potatoes, and coal are fish,-are dissatisfied with the omission of these primary articles of faith in the Canada reprints of the school-books above-mentioned. They therefore use nearly altogether the original Dublin edition, though endeavors have "Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Island, been made to introduce the Canadian editions. are two large islands separated from Nova Scotia All such insidious attempts to undermine their by narrow channels. They are all cold and fog-faith in transatlantic oracles have hitherto been gy in climate, and the inhabitants are principally egregious failures. They won't have anything to engaged in the fisheries." do with such a hotbed of annexation and rowdy ism as Montreal. The writer had penned the foregoing paragraph when a friend, engaged in "teaching the young They think, however, in Prince Edward's Island, that they raise large quantities of oats and potatoes, and a great number of horses; this however, may be only a freak of their vivid im-idea," suggested that the books in question being aginations; nevertheless it is certain that at a certain hotel in St. John, where the writer sojourned, which is much frequented by Prince Edward Islanders, the talk is of horses, ad nau· seam. A large quantity of coal is exported from Cape Breton, if shipping lists speak truly. Probably "fish," in the Hibernian dialect signifies and includes horses, oats, potatoes and coal. A gentleman in the British service issued in London some time since a work on the Provinces, wherein, speaking of railway schemes, he states that it would be impossible to run steamboats across the Bay of Fundy in the winter season, as enormous icebergs are floating about in every direction. The natives, however, say that it is doubtful if any of the said icebergs are of sufficient magnitude to float anything heavier than a sea-gull, and that even such ones are few and far between. They are also under an impression that the writer above-mentioned viewed the icebergs (?) through an optical medium equal in magnifying powers to the telescope wherewith Herschel, from the Cape of Good Hope, saw the Man in the Moon! They are also under the delusion (having possibly been all biologized by an eminent professor of the science) that a steamer runs across the bay from St. John all the winter, except four or five weeks, and that its stoppage during that period is caused not by the presence of icebergs but by the absence of business. It is said that persons having control over educational matters in the Province of New Brunswick, anxious that the rising generation should be thoroughly indoctrinated in the true faith-to wit, that the New Brunswick timber is exported from Halifax; that rafts are floated across the Bay of Fundy, thence several hundred miles along the coast of Nova Scotia into Halifax harbour for the purpose of being exported in seagoing vessels (there being none in St. John); that used as class books, and the Dublin edition having been first introduced, the parents are too stingy to buy new books, which, if the Canada edition was used by any, all would have to do-that a new edition has just been printed in Philadel phia, wherein the remarkable facts above detailed are embalmed, like any other mummies, for the benefit of the rising generation of Columbians and Blue-nsoes, which is to be henceforth the only edition used in the eastern Provinces. It will, among other purposes, answer admirably, that of preventing the young men of the United States from emigrating to countries under the Flag that braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze," by making these Provinces answer in place of a "raw head and bloody bones,”—thus preserving intact Blue-nose loyalty in generations to come. Albeit; the writer is unshaken in his conviction that the above course of conduct is mainly traceable to the spirit of unswerving loyalty (some would call it "consistent toadyism") which animates the people of New Brunswick. CURIOUS EFFECTS OF 'EXPECTANT ATTENTION.' fect of milk, was hypnotised by Mr. Braid, and |