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ay; then pasture it until it is fit to stump, and then, ot having been exhausted, very little manure will arry another rotation.”

CHAPTER XXII._

RELIGION, MORALITY AND WORSHIP.

THE state of Religion and Morality and means of 'orship in the year 1818, a little more than 40 years go, is described in a 16 pp. tract entitled “ a des- -ription of Prince Edward Island,” by “a person any years resident there,” and probably since it is ndorsed with “the approbation ot'the late Governor, dmund Fanning Esq.,” it may serve the purpose. f a correct point from which to date an estimate of he progress of these subjects during the interval of ime since placed on the register of Island privileges, ow so enlarged in their scope and so beneficially pplied to their purposes. .

The "many years resident,” says, speaking oi the tate of Religion in the year above named on this sland, “ There are a few persons who attend the stablished Church once in a week, the far greater art are dissenters of one description or another, but H they have but few religious meetings, and not any inisters, their Sabbath days are generally filled up ith looking over their past week’s industry, and in isiting their neighbors. When any dissenting minis- er has happened to visit the Island from the conti- ent, many of the inhabitants have attended with an pparent desire to be instructed. The native French nd many of the Highland Scotch are Roman Catho- ics, who meet regularly for worship every Sabbath ay, and have a priest or two, who reside among hem.”