Collection search - The Southern Shore of the St. Lawrence

This item is mounted on folio 37, vol. II, recto.

cited in Acland, p. 46

Colour transparency available: C-128647

Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in pencil, on image, c.l.: l.g. / d.g. (colour notations, light green, dark green); inscribed in pen and brown ink, on folio, across b.: The Southern Shore of the St. Lawrence. When the ground of each settler is cleared, a house / is built - and as he prospers, a barn. Each settler has a frontage of about 3 acres - with 90 acres inland / Behind the river front settlers other rows are placed. Hence the river bank is one continuous village / with equidistant houses dotted on the shore in one of even parallel rows. See also Vol. VI (complete)

Sir Henry Wentworth Acland Collection, Sketches in North America; Volume II: New Brunswick to Saguenay