The Miramichi Fire of 1825.
A contributor to American Notes and Queries copies from Abraham Gesnor’s “ New Brunswick,” an account of the forest fires in Northumberland county, New Brunswick, which desolated the district of Miramichi, October 7, 1825. In only one hour, New Castle, the present capital; Douglaston, and all the villages along the north side of the river Miramichi were entirely destroyed ; 160 persons and 875 cattle are said to have perished, and nearly 600 buildings were destroyed.
的preceding summer had been excessively hot throughout North America, and there had been little rain to refresh the parched and withered vegetation ; violent forest fires had raged in Canada, Nova Scotia and Maine, and although New Brunswick had not escaped, the inhabitants of the province were not apprehensive, on account of their remoteness from the destructive element.
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