Graeme Wynn states that generally, contemporary commentators are critical of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries farming methods of the post-expulsion settlers in the Upper Bay of Fundy. He gives examples of the widespread perception that Planter and Loyalist settlers had great difficulty in mastering techniques in which the Acadians were proficient. Professor Wynn’s provides an argument that challenges these views and he “contends that in the basic matter of dyking technique, continuity rather than hiatus marked Fundy marshland agriculture in the second half of the eighteenth century.” He provides evidence that “adverse contem¬porary comparisons of "English" and Acadian cropping patterns were mislead¬ing because they ignored crucial questions of market demand, population size, and subsistence requirements.”