39
Fort Cumberland, " 49 " 105
Point Debute, " 52 " 62
Jolicure, " 32 " 50
St. Georges, " 38 " 72
Woodstock, middle } " 36 " 135
district, }
Upper District, " 35 " 76
Dow's District, " 36
Wakefield, middle } " 21 " 90
district, }
Lower district, " 21 " 86
Northampton, " 35
Military Settlement }
No. 1, } " 38 " 140
No. 2, " 36 " 131
No. 3, " 24 " 159
No. 4, " 24 " 116
Scotch Settlement, " 20 " 36
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In July, 1824 4,379
Add the number in the College at Fredericton,
as reported last year 357
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Total 4,736
In July, 1823 3,396
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Increase during the year 1,340

The trade of New-Brunswick may be comprised under the following heads:

EXPORTS TO THE WEST-INDIES.

Boards, shingles, fish, and small articles. The principal return for
which is rum, sugar, molasses, &c.

EXPORTS TO GREAT BRITAIN.

Squared timber, masts, spars, oars, lathwood, deals, furs, &c.
Ship-building forms also a considerable branch of trade at present.
Some of which are built by contract for merchants in Great-Britain, and
others are built and loaded by merchants in the Province, and either
employed by them in the exportation of lumber, or sold in Britain. The
returns for this trade are British merchandise, and specie.

There was formerly a considerable trade carried on with the United
States in gypsum, grindstones, smoked salmon, &c. and for a short
period in the productions of the West-Indies from the free port of St.
John, (as well as from Halifax in Nova-Scotia.) But the trade in
West-India produce is now totally at a