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     dwurd island, ‘7 monarch of all he surveyed.” For 
     
     '50 years the Island hardly knew its own name—for 
     
    
   
   
    
     nother 100 years the immigrating principle only 
     
     layed over this “ granary of North America,” like 
     
     he fitful northern lights, rising from a unit to from 
     
     ,000 to 6,000 inhabitants, and falling again in the 
     
     ear 1770 to 150 families 3“ It contains now in 1860, 
     
     nearly 100,000 souls. But the difference of the olden 
     
     time and now will be still more apparent by consult- 
     
     ing once more, John Speed’s Geography and Atlas 
     
     of MSG—speaking of “the regions contained in this 
     
     western hemisphere, under the name of the New 
     
     .VVorld or America,” he says, 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ What lyeth from the Equator toward each Pole 
     
     appears as yet but as waste ground in our Maps: for 
     
     the experience of our Travellers have not reached so 
     
     far, as to search fully into the Commodities ofthe 
     
     Countries, or nature of their Inhabitants, yet ques- 
     
     tionless there are many, and may hereafter yield as 
     
     much profit as any other. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ” Ofthe quality of this region in general we can 
     
     speak but little. For by reason of her length and 
     
     breadth, she lyeth at such several distance in respect 
     
     ofthe Heavens, that she admits indeed all variety 
     
     almost either of plenty or want, which we have hith- 
     
     erto found in Asia, Africa, or Europe. Here admi- 
     
     rable for the fertility of soyl; then again as barren: 
     
     'here temperate, there scorching hot, elsewhere as 
     
     extream cold. Some regions watered with dainty 
     
     rivers, others again infested with perpetual drouth. 
     
     Some plains, some hills, some woods, some mines, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     *The period in which England corresponds in its history with the 
     
     state of P. E. Island in 1770 is about a century less than 2000 
     
     , years ago. Charles Dickens says,speuking of ancient England then, 
     
     ‘ “The whole country was covered with forests and swamps, the 
     
     : greater part of it was very misty and cold; there were no roads, no 
     
    

    
     bridges, no streets,no houses that you would think deserving of the 
     
     name. 
     
    
   
   
    
     If old England was once thus, surely England’s sons may plant 
     
     efi‘ectively some of their noble purposes in RE. Island, without much 
     
     doubt of a reasonable success and benefit. 
     
    
   
   
    
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