CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

“ It is utterly futile to talk of the settlement of a. country with- t first making it known at home and abroad.—M0NR0, EMIGRATION, ge 374.

THE geographical discovery of a country, is sim- y the initiation of a knowledge of it. Yet the mple discovery of it is sufficient to the adventurer 'ho loves exploration only for its own sake; much ‘ore knowledge is, however, necessary to ensure the cond step towards a complete acquaintance with s adaptation to the general want. It may take me to collect, and energy to promulgate the infor— ation to be gained, and need evidence that it is uthentic, to convince of its practical hearing (if it ave any) upon the requirements of the age; but if new country really has aptitudes for settlement, nd is able to satisfy the enquiries of the practical an, it will not be long, after the information is made nown, before the tide of Immigration will set in, to alize what is believed in concerning it.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, the subject of the present etch, appears to have been initiated on the world’s urf'ace on St. John’s Day, A. D. 1497, and to have ntered upon her apprenticeship as a namesake of at saint. T'nree centuries after, the Island took er second degree in the mysteries of progression, nder the worshipful mastership of Brother Edward uelph, whose regal progenitor, approving the loyal spiration, allowed and confirmed a change of name he lst February, 1799. It will be conceded too by

hose who are versed in the science of Colonial pro- B