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years2 and it is gradually assuming the appearance of a modern city. The wooden buildings that served as business establishments :1 generation ago have given place to brick and stone structures, and similar progress is to be seen in the residential districts. The city‘s surroundings are beau- tiful, and the suburbs are charming with gardens, groves and hedges of evergreen, with shaded roads and fertile fields.

One of the most beautiful spots and probably the place of greatest historic interest on the Island is Warren Farm, at Rocky Point, nearly opposite the city and within a few minutes trip by ferry. This was originally Port La Joie, the former capital and the residence of several distinguished people under the French Regime. First settled by the French in 1720, it was allowed to decay, but in 1749 the place was resuscitated and new buildings'were erected. Grass-covered mounds and excavations are all that now remain of the forts, the village of several hundred inhabitants, church, ecclesias— tical establishment, governor’s residence, etc., that once existed. The principal fort designed and laid off by the French and afterwards constructed by the English, was called Fort Amherst. Many relics have been found, and the old cellars. and outlines of the earthworks and burial ground, can be distinctly seen. The air of romance that clings to the spot, the fine view from the site of Fort Amherst, with the still more beautiful outlook from “ Ringwood ” on the elevation west of the fort, and the presence of an Indian encampment near by. make the locality decidedly interesting.

Charlottetown's principal buildings—brick and stone structures—are on or in the vicinity of Queen Square. The Post Olfice contains also the Custom House, the Savings Bank and other Federal Government Oflices. The Provincial Building—a fine old structure rich with the political memories of sixty years—contains the Legislative Assembly Chambers, the Legislative Library and Local Government offices. This edifice is of Nova Scotia free-stone, and the corner stone was laid on May 16th, 1843. West of the

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