o remedy this where the road
runs along the course of a river it would be advisible to explore the
country some distance back, for as the banks of the rivers are in many
places very high the streams that run into them indent the country and
form hollows and hills near their exit that are nearly impassable; when
by going a little back the land falls and their banks have a gradual
slope over which a good road may be made with ease. This although not a
general rule, will hold good in most parts of the country.

CHAPTER VI.

_State of Learning. Trade. Revenue. Remarks on the Lumber Business.
Population. Militia._

The state of learning in this Province is very flourishing at present
compared to what it was a few years ago. When the country was first
settled the opportunities of obtaining a liberal education were small
and confined to a few. From this cause many persons who occasionally
fill important stations in the several counties, are found very
deficient in learning, but this from the many provisions lately made
will cease in a few years, and men will always be found to fill all
public offices, with learning sufficient to enable them to discharge
their several duties with credit to themselves and advantage to the
public.

Besides the College of New-Brunswick incorporated by charter, there are
Grammar Schools established in several counties which are liberally
supported. By the bounty of the Legislature, twenty pounds per annum is
allowed to be drawn out of the Province Treasury for every Parish where
a School-House is provided, and the sum of thirty pounds raised by the
inhabitants, to enable them to employ good and sufficient teachers, and
this bounty extends to three schools in each Parish. By this liberal
public provision schooling is brought to the doors of most of the
inhabitants, who will exert themselves to partake of the public
benefit.

The College of New-Brunswick is established at Fredericton and endowed
with a block of land containing nearly six thousand acres adjoining the
town plot.

The Governor and Trustees of this College having surrendered their
charter to the King, and petitioned to have the Establishment put on a
more enlarged footing; their petition was graciously received and a new
charter granted, bearing date the eighteenth of November, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-three. A grant of a sum of money was at the
same time made to the College out of the royal revenues in this