passing each other. It is supported by piles, and has hitherto withstood the effects of the freshets and the ice in a manner to leave no doubt as to its durability The expence of its erection amounted to £4000, upon which it returns an interest of nearly 4 per cent. The trade of Liverpool is in a flourishing condition at present. There are 56 sail of ships, brigs and schooners owned at this place, besides small craft, the united tonnage of which is 4,150 tons. This shipping is employed in the European, West Indian and Coasting trade, and in the Labrador and Shore fishery. The new commercial regulations have augmented its commerce, and have occasioned a vast increase in its coasting trade. One of the principal resources of Liverpool is its export of Lumber, supplied by inexhaustible forests, that surround it. The extensive river which falls into the harbour, and the numerous lakes connected with it, render the transportation of this article easy and cheap. The river fishery, which was one of the principal attractions to the early settlers, and sometimes supplied them with 1,000 barrels of Salmon in a season, though much injured by the erection of Mills, is still productive, and at the mouth of the harbour great quantities of mackarel and herrings are taken every year in seins. a short distance up the river, there is another wooden bridge about 300 feet in length, situated near the "falls," a beautiful cascade, around which are settled 50 families. In the year 1813 Liverpool was visited by a very extraordinary influx of the sea. On the 19th of January, there was a severe gale of wind from the southward, which terminated at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 20th in a thunder storm. From that

time the weather had become moderate, the wind had ceased and the water was calm. At 11 o'clock in the day it began to blow violently from the South East,and immediately afterwards from the Northward, when the sea appeared to have suddenly risen 6 feet above its ordinary level, and to be rushing with prodigious violence into the harbour. The vessels at the wharves were swept away in an instant, some of them having broken their fastenings, and others torn away the piles to which they were attached. Five of them were forced up the river, with as much velocity as if they had been under a press of sail, and on the reflux a large brig and a ship were driven over the bar and carried out to sea. At the falls the Ice was immediately floated, and on its rise destroyed the bridge. In less than an hour the agitation of the water subsided, and was succeeded by a breeze from the North East, attended with sleet and hail. A rumbling noise, not unlike that of thunder, having been heard a short time previous, and no similar influx having been perceived in any harbour on the coast, this phenomenon has been generally attributed to the shock of an Earthquake.

Between Liverpool and the bounds of Shelburne County, is Port Mouton. In the year 1783 the British legion, which had served with distinguished reputation in the American war, under Colonel Tarlton, began a settlement at Harbour Mouton, and laid the foundation of a town, to which they gave the name of Guysborough. They were not long in perceiving that they had made a most injudicious selection for settlement, the soil being stony and barren, and the country having nothing to recommend it but its har

bour. Although they had erected a number of houses they resolved to abandon it, but while making preparations for removing their effects, an accidental fire which consumed the town to ashes, with all their live stock, furniture and wearing apparel, filled up the measure of their calamities, and rendered them perfectly miserable. A more complete destruction from that merciless element, was never known, and had not a King's ship been despatched from Halifax, with provisions, for the relief of the inhabitants, they must inevitably have perished from famine. Most of those persons who suffered by the conflagration, removed to Chedabucto bay, in the Easternmost extremity of the Province, a situation much more suitable to their deserts, and affording them some consolation in the midst of their sufferings. There are now about 50 families at Port Mouton, who subsist chiefly by the lumber trade and fishery.

Westward of this place, and immediately within "Little hope" is Port Jolie, otherwise called Stormont River, an inlet extending five miles in length, but having scarcely sufficient water for large boats; a few fishermen are settled at this place. The third inlet west of Liverpool, and within the County of Queen's, is Port Hibert, distinguished by the abrupt head land on its western side, and by the position of Green Island, which lies a mile to the S. W. of its entrance. Port Hibert presents at full tide a spacious sheet of water, but on the ebb, the greater part of the flats are exposed to view. There is, however, good anchorage within its mouth at all times. The dividing line between the County of Shelburne and that of Queen's strikes the headof this harbour, leav

ing the Western side within the former, and the Eastern within the latter. The inhabitants of this place are few in number, and were originally soldiers who settled here after the revolutionary war.

The interior of this county is generally stony, and a great part of it is not susceptible of cultivation. At Brookfield, Harmony and a few other places, where the land is capable of improvement, there are some thriving settlements.