HNSTONE, and afterwards on Major-General
BALFOUR,) till 1812, when he was succeeded by Major-General SMYTH; he
having gone to England in 1813, the Government was administered by
Major-General SAUMAREZ; but was resumed by General SMYTH, in 1814, who
having again left the Province, the Government devolved on
Lieutenant-Colonel HAILES. On the death of Governor CARLETON,
Major-General GEORGE STRACEY SMYTH, was appointed to the Government by
His Majesty's Commission, dated the 28th February, 1817. Governor SMYTH
died the 27th March, 1823, when the Government was assumed by WARD
CHIPMAN, Esquire, who administered the same till his death in the month
of February following, when it devolved on JOHN MURRAY BLISS, Esquire.
In the mean time, Major-General Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, Baronet, had been
appointed to the Government by His Majesty. He arrived in the Province
in August, 1824, and immediately repaired to Fredericton, and assumed
the Government on the 28th of the same month, and is at present (1825)
Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of
New-Brunswick, and its Dependencies.

The lively interest which Sir HOWARD takes in whatever concerns the
prosperity of the Province, may be best inferred from his own words in
his address to the Legislative Body, and his speech at the formation of
the Agricultural Society, which are inserted in full in the Appendix to
this short work.

CHAPTER II.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

_Situation. Extent. Boundaries. Face of the Country. Soil, Animals.
Mineral and Vegetable Productions. Inhabitants, Religion, and
Government._

New-Brunswick is situated between the forty-fifth and forty-ninth
degrees of North latitude, and between the sixty-fourth and
sixty-eighth degrees of West longitude. It is nearly 200 miles in
length, and 180 in breadth, containing about twenty-two thousand square
miles of land and water. It is bounded on the North by the river St.
Lawrence and Canada, on the West by the State of Maine, on the South
and Southeast by the Bay of Fundy and Nova-Scotia, and on the East by
the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay Verte. It is divided into eight
Counties, viz. St. John, Westmorland, King's, Queen's, Charlotte, York,
Sunbury, and Northumberland, which are again divided into Parishes,
according to their extent, and will be described when I come to treat
of the Counties separately.

This Province is watered with several fine rivers which lay open the
inmost recesses