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people of the West side—that the sale of the fisheries might be better utilized in keeping down taxes than in pandering to a depraved instinct of human nature.

In the last number of the Magazine an account was given of the arrival at St. John, in the year 1816, of John Mann and his fellow immigrants from Glasgow, and some quotations were added from the story of his "Interesting Adventures and Disasters" published at Glasgow in 1824. He published at the same time and place a pamphlet of 48 pages called "The Emigrant's Instructor," containing information respecting the soil, produce, mode of clearing land, style of buildings, manners and customs of the inhabitants, etc., in the provinces of Upper Canada and New Brunswick. His advice to emigrants is extremely sensible and often quaintly expressed. Among other things he remarks that axes made in the old country are neither answerable in shape nor temper for use in America, it is therefore altogether unnecessary to bring them. This statement recalls a curious incident that occurred in the early days of the province. An English carpenter, Finding by experience the great superiority of the Amerian axe over the one in use in the old country, conceived the idea of making a profitable speculation by importing from England a large number of axes made in the American fashion. He accordingly prepared a carefully proportioned model in wood and sent home as a pattern. Unfortunately he conceived it unnecessary to bore out the eye of the axe in his wooden.