New Brunswick -- Description and travel; New Brunswick -- History
The fruits are Apples, Plums, Cherries, Currants, Gooseberries,
Cranberries, Blue and Black Berries, Raspberries, Strawberries, and
small Grapes, with a number of small wild fruits. Butter Nuts, a large
oily nut, Beech Nuts, and Hazel Nuts are found in different parts of
the country in abundance, and in many places serve for fattening hogs;
particularly the Beech Nut, which after the severe frosts in the fall
nearly cover the ground.
There are no disorders peculiar to the climate. The air throughout most
part of the year is very pure and the inhabitants in general enjoy a
good share of health. Whether the observations that have been made of
the Americans sooner decaying than Europeans will apply to the
inhabitants of New-Brunswick cannot yet be ascertained; as the Province
has not been long enough settled; but there is good reason to believe
that with temperance and care the human frame will exist as long in
vigor in the latter as in Europe.--Another remark as a proof of the
former has been made which is that the human mind sooner arrives to
maturity in America than in Europe; but this if true may be more owing
to accidental than physical causes.
Their earlier marriages likewise proves nothing as they arise from the
peculiar circumstances of the different countries.
The inhabitants of New-Brunswick may be classed as follows according to
priority of settlement.
1st. The Aborigines or Indians.
2d. Acadians, being the descendants of the French who were allowed to
remain in Nova-Scotia after it was ceded to the British. They were
called the French neutrals--their descendants are at present settled in
different parts of the Province and are considerably numerous and will
be noticed with the Indians hereafter.
The old Inhabitants, were those families who were settled in the
Province before the conclusion of the American revolution, as already
noticed. They were so called by the disbanded troops and refugees who
came to the country in 1783, and the appellation is still applied to
their descendants. Some of those were settled at Maugerville where they
had made considerable improvements before the loyalists came to the
country. A few of the old stock are still living, having attained to a
great age. Their descendants are however numerous, and by
intermarriages with the new comers, spread over every part of the
Province.
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