erville on the
eastern side of the river. The river Nashwaack runs through this
Parish, and falls into the St. John opposite Fredericton. This stream
was settled by part of the 42d Regiment and some of the disbanded corps
that had been raised in America during the war. It is settled for more
than thirty miles along its banks, having a mixture of good intervale
and high land along its course. About five miles from its confluence
with the St. John, it receives the waters of the Peniack, a
considerable stream with a settlement along its banks, and about twelve
miles further up, the river Tay falls into it. There are two Chapels in
this settlement, one belonging to the Methodists and the other to the
Baptists. They have no stated Ministers, but are visited occasionally.
The road from Fredericton to Miramichi in the County of Northumberland
leads through this settlement.

The Parish of Fredericton adjoins Kingsclear, and extends to the Parish
of Lincoln in the County of Sunbury. It includes the town of
Fredericton, before described, with a back settlement called New
Maryland, and another on the Rushagoannes. The road from Fredericton to
St. Andrews passes through these settlements, and is fast improving.

The lands in the immediate vicinity of the town are not much improved.
Having been reserved for the College, they remain without tenants; the
settlers in this country not liking to lease farms, which are hard to
clear up, when they can obtain lots for themselves by paying the grant
fees. A great part of the land in the site of the town, likewise
belongs to the College or Church, or is reserved for Government uses,
which has been and still remains a great check to the growth and
improvement of the Town.

The County of York is upwards of two hundred miles in length. A great
portion of the lands in this county are well adapted to grain,
particularly wheat. It is well stored with excellent timber and abounds
with navigable rivers and streams. It is settling and improving very
fast, and furnishes the major part of the lumber shipped at the port of
St. John. Fredericton is the principal Town, and situated within four
miles of the lower extremity of the County.--The inconvenience of the
Courts, &c. being established at the extremity of such extensive
Counties are many, and amount almost to a denial of justice to the
distant settlers, who have to travel from one to two hundred miles to
the County Courts. The consequence is that