CAPTAIN HOLLAND S CORRESPONDENCE . O the naval force in , instructions were at once issued to Lieutenant Mowatt to give the required assistance ; and Governor Wilmot instructed , the command¬ ing officer on the island, to render all the assistance in his power in forwarding the important service in which Captain Holland was engaged. In a letter addressed to the Earl of Hillsborough , Captain Holland reports most favourably respecting the capabilities of the island. He adds, " There are about thirty Acadian families on the island, who arc regarded as prisoners, and kept on the same footing as those at Halifax . They are extremely poor, and maintain themselves by their industry in gardening, fishiag, fowling, &c. The few remaining houses in the different parts of the island are very bad, and the quantity of cattle is but very inconsiderable." At Saint Peter's, Captain Holland met an old acquaintance, Lieutenant Burns , of the 45th Regiment, who had removed with his family to the island, and had built a house and barn, and of whom he writes to the Board of Trade very favorably. The energy with which Captain Holland prosecuted the survey is sufficiently proved by the fact that in October, 1765, he sent home by Mr. Robinson , one of his deputies, plans of the island, as well as of the ; also, a description of the Island, from which we shall quote copiously as conveying the impressions of an acute and reliable observer. " The soil," says Captain Holland , " on the south side of the island is a reddish clay, though iu many places it is sandy, particularly on the north coast. From the East Point to Saint Peter's it is a greyish sand. The woods upon this coast, from the East Point as far southward as Hills¬ borough River, and to on the west, were entirely destroyed by fire about twenty-six years ago. It