esent by persons transacting business
on the wharves, who have to walk or rather wade, day after day, through
the mud. It would also facilitate the transfer of Goods, by keeping
them in better order, and prevent many accidents which are yearly
occurring by sailors and others falling off.

FREDERICTON.

Is situated in the County of York, on the west side of the river Saint
John on an extensive flat opposite the Nashwaack, formerly called Saint
Anns point. The river forms an elbow in front of the town, and the
hills encircle the plain, and approach the river about two miles above
the town leaving a spot of low land nearly four miles in length and in
places over a mile in breadth.

The town is laid out in squares of eighteen lots containing one quarter
of an acre each. The streets cross at right angles. Those that run
parallel with the river are more than a mile in length, and are in
places considerably well built up; the houses are all of wood and of
different heights.

The inhabitants are the descendents of the Loyalists who came to the
Province at the close of the American revolution, with a mixture of
Europeans and Americans.

Fredericton being the seat of Government, contains besides a residence
for the Lieutenant-Governor, a Provincial Hall, where the Supreme
Courts and General Assemblies are held. This building contains a
spacious room for the Supreme Courts, with several Jury rooms, a
Council Chamber, and an Assembly Room, with other apartments and
conveniences for the Legislative Body. Adjoining this building are the
Offices of the Surveyor General and Secretary of the Province.--The
other public buildings are a handsome square of Barracks with a Parade
in front, where part of a Regiment of foot are usually quartered.-Barracks
and Store-houses for a company of Royal Artillery with other buildings
for the use of the troops.

A County Court-House, which also serves for a Market; a small
commodious Church in a sightly situation, two neat Chapels, one
belonging to the Baptists, and the other to the Methodists; a Catholic
Chapel in progress; a Gaol, and a building occupied as a College till
another one on an enlarged scale can be erected; a Poor House in the
vicinity of the town, on a liberal scale; and a Meeting House belonging
to a number of persons composed of congregationalists and other
seceders from the Kirk of Scotland.

Government House is situated a little above the upper part of the town
on a conv