Metapedia River, New Brunswick.

An Old Trapper.

Lumbering and fishing are the principal occupations of the people of New Brunswick, as is but natural, with such a timbered area behind them and the ocean lying at their doors. Shipbuilding, too, has always been a profitable industry, and ships and steamers from St. John may still be seen in many ports of the antipodes. Of late the demand for iron hulls has caused this business to decline; but during the latter half of the nineteenth century vessels to the value of fifty million dollars were built in the New Brunswick shipyards. There is, however, no reason why agriculture should be neglected in this Province, for it contains no less than fourteen million acres adapted to good farming. Only a part of these have yet been cultivated, and millions still await the enterprising settler, and offer every prospect of success to industry and energy, since water is abundant, and everything will flourish here that can be grown in any temperate climate. The Maritime Provincials are a sturdy and remarkably homogeneous race. Thus, ninety-four per cent. of them were born in Can-a d a, and ninety-nine per cent. are natives of some portion of the British Empire. In parts of Nova Scotia the name of the peninsula - New Scotland - is amply justified, as most of the inhabitants are descendants of Scotch Highlanders, and Gaelic, as well as English, is frequently spoken here. As for New Brunswick, it was settled principally by those citizens of New England who, after the Revolution, left the colonies as loyal subjects of the king, founded St. John, and made this section of the continent their home.

Round The Camp Fire.

A New Brunswick Lumber Camp.

The beauty and security of Halifax harbor are world renowned. Sixteen miles long, if one includes its inner basin, well sheltered from the wintry storms, open during the entire year, and with a flood of water deep enough to float at one time hundreds of the largest ships, it is not strange that it has always been, since the foundation of the city by Lord Cornwallis in 1749, a favorite rendezvous for the warships and the merchant vessels of Great Britain. It is to-day one of the most important naval stations of the empire, as well as the headquarters of its North American and West Indian squadron; while it is also, with the exception of Esquimalt on the Pacific, the only town on the American continent which still retains a garrison of British troops. Hence, as we might expect, it is supplied with a dockyard worthy of the place and of the nation which it represents. This covers an extent of fourteen acres, and includes a dry-dock, the construction of which in solid granite and concrete is said to have cost a million dollars. It is superior in size to any other on the continent, and is the only one, on this side of the Atlantic, which can receive the largest battleships of Britain's navy without removing guns and stores. A place of such commercial and strategic value as Halifax is of course powerfully protected; not only by the citadel, which from a height of more than two hundred and fifty feet completely dominates the scene, but also by a network of coast batteries and island forts, the fearful cross fire of whose heavy guns would make the entrance of a hostile fleet impossible. Here, therefore, even more than at Quebec, Bellona is the presiding deity; but she disguises her grim features admirably. Thus Halifax is situated on a tongue of land which, stretching southward like a steamer's prow, divides the harbor into two lovely sheets of water that make the city a peninsula. One of these, called the Bedford Basin, borders the capital like an occidental Bospho-rus; the other, known as the Northwest Arm, reminds one, by its form and narrow flood of deep blue water, of the Golden Horn.

His Majesty's Ship "Bellerophon".

Dockyard At Halifax.

In summer, this enchanting inlet is alive with boats, many of which are prettily adorned with colored cushions and bedecked with awnings ; and whether one looks down upon it from an elevation, or gazes upward from it at the tasteful residences on its shores, he comprehends the fondness which the forty thousand citizens of Halifax feel for this charming feature of the Nova Scotian capital. At such a time, the outer harbor also breathes of undisturbed tranquillity. The placid water, rippled by the gentle breeze, the pleasure craft that skim along its surface, the glistening perspective seaward flecked with sun-lit sails, and the bright turf that makes the islands look like terraces of rich, green velvet - all suggest perpetual peace.