ory not being available,
this is printed from a photostat copy furnished by the Dominion
archives._

SKETCHES

OF

NEW-BRUNSWICK;

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT
OF THE PROVINCE,

WITH

A BRIEF DESCRIPTION

OF THE

COUNTRY, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, INHABITANTS, GOVERNMENT,
RIVERS, TOWNS, SETTLEMENTS, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,
TRADE, REVENUE, POPULATION, &c.

BY

An Inhabitant of the Province.

"_Whatever concerns my country, interests me;
I follow nature, with truth my guide._"

SAINT JOHN:
PRINTED BY CHUBB & SEARS,
MARKET-SQUARE.

1825.

To the Reader.

Having at different times collected what information I could obtain
relating to the Province of New-Brunswick, I intended whenever I had a
sufficient fund of correct materials, to publish them in such a shape
as to diffuse a general knowledge of the Country, its productions,
sources of wealth, &c. For this reason I had kept the different
Counties, as well as the several subjects of which I intended to treat,
separate, in order to receive such additions as I could from time to
time make. But as I am happy to find that it is one of the objects of
the New-Brunswick Agricultural and Emigrant Society, to publish a
Geographical and Statistical Account of the Province, as soon as
materials can be collected, I have given up my first design--being
convinced that such a Society can collect correct information and the
materials for such a desirable object with far greater facility and
accuracy than an individual. In the mean time, I have given these
Sketches to the public, hoping they may serve to give a faint knowledge
of the Country, till a more perfect Work is prepared. It is no small
matter to give any thing like a full description of a new Country like
New-Brunswick, where the Compiler has but few helps--where there are
but few written documents to resort to, and where neither Animals,
Minerals, or Plants, have been properly arranged; and where there are
but few correct materials to guide him in pointing out the changes of
the seasons and other natural phenomena, with many other things which
are requisite in a complete description of a new Country. The labour of
even arranging the different Parishes was considerable, which the
statement of the population of the Province, (had I possessed that
document in time,) would have at once supplied.

It was my intention to add a concise history of the principal
tr