ipal grasses produced in the country, are white and red
clover, timothy, lucerne, browntop, &c. Good uplands produce one and a
half tons per acre, and the intervale from two to three tons. There are
several species of wild grass, such as blue-joint, &c. found in
meadows, in the woods, and along streams, which make very good food for
young stock.

As no regular catalogue of the various species of indigenous plants has
yet been made in this country, it would be useless to attempt anything
like a correct, minute enumeration of them in this concise sketch. I
shall, therefore, prosecute this part of the subject no farther, as I
think the time is not far distant when this branch of the rural economy
of the Province will be particularly attended to; and that the
Societies which have lately been formed for that purpose, will not only
develope and improve the native productions of the country, but
introduce different species of exotics, as they find them answer the
soil and climate.

CHAPTER IV.

PRINCIPAL RIVERS AND TOWNS.

_River St. Croix. St. John. Miramichi. Mars-Hill. City of St. John.
Fredericton. St. Andrews._

Having in the preceding chapters given a brief sketch of the settlement
and face of the country, and noticed its climate, productions, &c. I
shall now proceed to give a short description of the principal rivers,
mountains, and towns, beginning with the

RIVER SAINT CROIX.

This river was made the boundary between the territories of His
Britannic Majesty and the United States, by the treaty of 1783 which
describes the bounds as follows, viz. "That angle, which is formed by a
line drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix river to the
Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide these rivers that
empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into
the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river;
thence down along the middle of that river to the 45th degree of north
latitude, from thence by a line due west on said latitude until it
strikes the river Iroquois, or Cataraquy," &c.

The boundaries thus described, have caused considerable difficulty
between the two Governments, in discovering which is the height of land
mentioned in the treaty; and in regard to the St. Croix, it is supposed
that the British Commissioners were totally unacquainted with the river
in question, and not aware that the lines proposed, if run according to
the American const