PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND .

THOUGH surrounded by the sea, the climate of the Island-i " vety fine, being almost absolutely exempt from fogs, and present-

ing during the whole year a mean temperature singularly free from extremes of, heat and cold, and especially from the sudden changes experienced on the mainland, in both Canada and New _ England. '

For persons suffering from lung diseases, hay fever, asthma, . and general debility, it can hardly be excelled, and as a summer resort, offering beautiful scenery, good shooting, the best sea and river fishing, charming-excursions, ' quaint and interesting tours of observation, pleasant

social intercourse with tourists from all parts of we. the United States and Canada, it is rivalled ' ' by few and eXCelled by none.

Settled by the French late in the seventeenth or early in the eighteenth century, it soon attracted a respectable nUmber' of settlers from Bretagne, Picardy and Normandy, whose produce'and grains were in great demand for the fortified city of Iouisbourg in Cape Breton (then 1 ’Isle Royale, or the Royal Island) In 1745 manv of these settlers were expatriated after the fall of Louisbourg. but after the return of this citadel to France the Island was again peopled, and when in 1755 Louisbourg was recaptured byt leneral Wolfe, it wotild seem that only a few of these poor farmers were removed from their homes. Some, however, were thus deported, especially those about Charlottetown (then Purl La fork), and

ill, the adjoining coast.’ The early English and Scotch settlers came upon many deposits of arms, furniture, cooking utensils, etc. (many of them even now to ”be found), hidden in the woods by families who fled from the troops sent to tear them from their homes. Some ten thousand of . the descendants of those who remained, and of the Acadianswho escaped . the deportation at Minas, Blomidon and other parts of Nova, Scotia, yet "i ‘ reside in the province. They are still to a great extent a people set apart Lil-3 ‘1 » from the rest of‘ the‘population, living in their own villages, intermarrying early with their own race, speaking the French tongue, and keeping up in dress, traditions, customs, etc. the simple, hospitable, kindly traits depicted in Evangeline. . Thus, to a great extent, in certain villages, the WOmen and maidens wear “the Norman cap and the kirtle of . hOmespun;” the young girl begins at an early age to Spin, ' weave and sew the coarse white linen and heavy deep-tinted

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