tion, the Legislature granted to the adventurers the sum of fifteen thousand pounds. Thus encouraged, the Company commenced the work upon a scale adapted for the transit of schooners. According to the plan finally agreed upon, the canal will be 60 feet in width at the water level, and 36 feet at the bottom, the slopes being one and a half horizontal to one perpendicular, and the depth sufficient to admit vessels drawing eight feet of water. The locks will be 90 feet within the chambers, 19 feet in width, and 125 feet between the extremities of the wing walls. -The artificial communication is confined to a few places, advantage being taken, when practicable, of navigating the lakes and the channel of the river; when completed, small steam boats, of 12 or 14 horse power, will be employed for towing; each boat performing the passage from Halifax harbour to the mouth of the Shubenacadie in 15 hours, and carrying each four trade boats of 30 tons burden. The whole distance of this inland navigation will be 53 miles and 1024 yards, and will be completed, according to the estimate of £75,000. It consists of five sections.

The first Section of the Canal line begins in Halifax harbour, at high water surface of medium tides, with tide lock of nine feet depth of water, and rises into Dartmouth Lake by seven locks, 69 feet. The total expense of this first Section, a distance of 1210 yards, is £23,227 6s. Od.

The second Section begins at the south end of the Dartmouth Lake, and passes through the same, one mile and 1340 yards, when it rises into Lake Charles by two locks, 26 feet six inches, over a distance of 1529 yards in length. The total expense of this second

Section, a distance of three miles 331 yards, is £13,624 2s. 4d.

The third Section begins at the south end of Lake Charles, passes through the same, being summit level two miles and 1375 yards, and then descends 31 feet four inches by two locks, into Lake William.— The total expense of this third Section, being two miles 1375 yards, is £7154 Ss. 8d.

The fourth Section begins at the south end of Lake William, passes through the same and Lake Thomas, six miles and 240 yards, descends 12 feet into Fletcher's Lake; passes through the same, 2 miles 1,112 yards, and then descends 9 feet into the great Lake, which is nine miles long, and a mile and upwards wide. The total expense of this fourth Section, eight miles and 1375 yards, is £6370 Ss. Sd.

The fifth Section begins at the south end of the Great Lake, extends through the same, five miles and 880 yards, to the outlet of the river Shubenacadie, descends the same three miles, to lock and wastewear under Hall's bridge; falls there 10 feet, pursues the course of the river two miles and 1,366 yards, to lock and waste-wear, above Tremain's Bridge, falls there ten feet; pursues the channel 12 miles to Parker's point, falls there ten feet, and thence descends the river 15 miles and 200 yards, to its mouth. The total expense for this fifth Section, 38 miles and 1486 yards, is £12,448 13s. 4d.

LAWRENCE Town.-In the year 1754, Governor Lawrence, with a view to promote the settlement of the Country, granted to twenty Proprietors 20,000 acres of land, about four leagues east of Halifax, commencing at the confluence of Smelt Brook, with the

north east Branch of Cole harbour, and extending as far as the falls of Chizetcook river, and erected the same into a township by the name of Lawrence Town. The Proprietors undertook to settle twenty families there, and the Governor promised to build a block house, and protect them with a military guard. The stipulated number of families were accordingly settled by the associates, maintained at their expense, and supplied with Cattle. The inhabitants remained there three years, and by their frugality and industry, promised to become useful and valuable settlers. But Governor Hopson having withdrawn the troops, and ordered the stockaded fort and public buildings to be demolished, the Proprietors, who received no compensation for their losses, abandoned for a time all further connection with the place, on the assurance that the lands should not be subject to forfeiture.-It remained in this neglected state for many years, and in 1808 there were only 50 families within the whole township. Lawrence Town is much intersected with large Lakes and Ponds, and a great part of it is rocky and barren. The best land is situated on Chizetcook and Lawrence rivers, where the marshes enable the inhabitants to support a good stock of cattle. The harbours in this township are Cole Harbour, Lawrence, and Three Fathom Harbour, all of which are only suitable for small vessels; a short distance from Chizetcook, the Musquedoboit discharges itself into the sea. This is a fine river, rising near the Stewiack, in a Country producing oak and other timber suitable for ship building, and for masts and spars. The extent of this settlement on this river, and the remaining part of the district, will be