THE BRITISH DOMINIONS IN NORTH AMERICA; OR A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCES OF LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. INCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &c. BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C. M., VICE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND Embellished with Views, Plans of Towns, Harbours, &c, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET. 1831. Checked ΤΟ HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, WILLIAM IV. OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. SIRE, IN approaching your Majesty, with feelings of the most profound veneration and respect, to depose, for the second time, the result of my humble topographical and statistical colonial labours, at the foot of the throne; I feel deeply penetrated by a sense of gratitude for your Majesty's condescension in graciously permitting that my work should appear under your Majesty's exalted patronage and royal auspices. This distinguished honour, whilst it sheds lustre upon my humble, but zealous endeavours, to develop the many natural resources and improvable advantages of your Majesty's flourishing trans-atlantic dominions, must conspicuously mark your Majesty's |