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HERE is New Brunswick? asked a young friend when
the order arrived at Malta directing our regiment to proceed to this colony. I confess to having had a rather vague notion of its whereabouts on the occasion in question, and I dare say there may be some of my readers similarly affected. At all events, my interrogator and myself were soon informed, inasmuch as, fetching the fine old Imperial Atlas presented to the corps by the late Lord Gough when he commanded the regiment, we traced out the limits of New Brunswick as follows: It lies between Lat. 45° and 48° 5' W., Long. 63° 50′ and 67°53′ N. It is separated from Lower Canada (now Quebec) by the River Restigouche and Bay of Chaleur on the north, and is bounded on the east by the Gulf of the St. Lawrence; west, by the State of Maine; and south, by Nova Scotia and Bay of Fundy. As compared with its sister provinces-to wit, Nova