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Nova Scotia’s Variety of Soil

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

An Excerpt From –

An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia

Pub 1829

Chapter VII

Of the Soil and Agriculture of Nova Scotia.

It has been the peculiar misfortune of Nova-Scotia, to have suffered
alike from its enemies and friends. By the former it has been represented
as a land of perpetual fog and unrelenting sterility, and by th latter
as the land of the olive and grape. Many of the loyalists who emigrated
to this Country, and experienced a total failure of their hopes, in consequence
of their precipitate and ill-judged attempt to make the formation of towns
precede the cultivation of the land, returned in disgust to the United
States, and attributed their misfortunes to the poverty of the soil, and
the inclemency of the climate, rather than their own indiscretion. The
ripening of these people, converted the name of Nova-Scotia [Nova Scotia] into a proverb, and this "ultima thule" of America became the
terror of nurseries …

… In such an extent of territory as is contained in Nova-Scotia [Nova
Scotia], there must necessarily be a great variety of soil, and no general
observations will apply with correctness to the whole ; but the following
scale, composed of twelve parts, will perhaps approximate to the truth
:–

Prime Land 3 parts.

Good do. 4

Inferior do. 3

* Incapable of Cultivation – 2 parts.

Of these two latter, although occurring in every county in the Province,
are chiefly to be found on the southern shore, stretching with irregular
breadth and some extensive exceptions, from Cape Canseau round the coast,
almost to Cape Forchu ; the two former spreading from the rear of the
Bay of Fundy, and on the Gulf shore to the boundary of New Brunswick.
This land may be divided into three classes – Upland, interval, and marsh
…

* This estimate is exclusive of Lakes, Ponds, and all other land covered
with water.

Vol 2 Pg 358 – 361

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