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Four Old Houses at Campobello.

NOT in all New Brunswick is there another shore so beautiful, with its bold headlands and sunny coves, as that which skirts the Island of Campobello, where, looking up the far reaches of the St. Croix river and fronting Eastport, was still standing, some twenty years ago, the residence of Admiral Owen. Long before his advent on the island, however, it had been deeded by the English Crown, in 1767, to Admiral William Owen and his cousins, who, in gratitude to Lord William Campbell, then Governor-General of Nova Scotia, had changed its name from Passamaquoddy Outer Island to Campobello. The "First" Admiral (William) lived upon it a year, 1770–1771, and founded the little town of New Warrington, near the head of Havre de Lute.

"The settlement," says Professor William F. Ganong in his historical monograph on the Island, "did not prosper as was expected, nevertheless it fulfilled the conditions of the grant and secured the Island to Owen's family. ... It affords the best, if not the only, example of a persistence to our own day of the system under which those great grants were no doubt expected to be held, that of a large landed estate descending from father to son, with the tenants paying rent to the proprietor, as in England."

Connected with this tenure of Campobello, it is interesting to speculate upon what might have been the future of Grand Manan if Lord William Campbell, who had a grant

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