-BEVERLEY ROBINSON, ABIJAH WILLARD, and JAMES PUTNAM, died soon
after, when BEVERLEY ROBINSON, the son of the former, with GEORGE
LEONARD, and JOHN SAUNDERS, were appointed to succeed them. The above
Members of the Council transacted the business of the Province for a
long while. Governor CARLETON was authorized from the Crown to locate
lands to the Loyalists and disbanded Troops in proportion to their
ability and rank.

From this period the Province slowly improved in Agriculture, Ship
Building, and the exportation of Masts, Spars, &c. to Great-Britain,
and Fish, Staves, Shingles, Hoop Poles, and sawed Lumber to the
West-Indies. Receiving in return coarse Woollens and other articles
from England; and Rum, Sugar, Molasses, and other produce from the
West-Indies.--a Town was built at the mouth of the River Saint John,
and another at St. Ann's Point, called Fredericton, where part of two
Regiments were stationed till the French revolution.--Barracks and
other public works were erected in different places, and the upper part
of the Country settled by establishing two military posts in the
interior, one at the Presqu-Isle, eighty miles above Fredericton, and
another at the Grand Falls, fifty-two miles farther up. But the
difficulties to which the first settlers were exposed continued for a
long time almost insurmountable. Having been reared in a pleasant
Country, abounding in all the comforts of life, they found themselves
suddenly transplanted to a wilderness with a rigorous climate, devoid
of almost every thing that could make life tolerable.--On their arrival
they found a few hovels where Saint John is now built, the adjacent
country exhibiting a most desolate aspect; which was peculiarly
discouraging to people who had just left their homes in the beautiful
and cultivated parts of the United States. Up the River Saint John the
country appeared better, and a few cultivated spots were found occupied
by old settlers. At St. Ann's, where Fredericton was afterwards built,
a few scattered huts of French were found; the country all around being
a continued wilderness--uninhabited and untrodden, except by the savage
and wild animals; and scarcely had these firm friends of their country
began to construct their cabins, when they were surprised by the rigors
of an untried climate: their habitations being enveloped in snow before
they were tenantable. The climate at that period (from what cause has
not yet been satisfactorily ascer