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two handsome fresh-water lakes ; indeed, the country is 

 covered with lakes, all of which are well supplied with trout. 

 We saw the college and the common school, built of free- 

 stone, both handsome buildings. We crossed the head of 

 the St. Croix River, which rolls its impetuous waters into 

 the Bay of Fundy. From here to Windsor the country im- 

 proved rapidly and the crops looked well. Windsor is a 

 neat, pretty village ; the vast banks of plaster of Paris all 

 about it give employment to the inhabitants and bring 

 wealth to the place ; it is shipped from here in large quan- 

 tities. Our coach stopped at the best boarding-house here, 

 for nowhere in the Provinces have we heard of hotels ; the 

 house was full and we were conveyed to another, where, 

 after more than two hours' delay, we had a very indifferent 

 supper. Meantime we walked to see the Windsor River, 

 on the east bank of which the village is situated. The 

 view was indeed novel ; the bed of the river, nearly a 

 mile wide and quite bare as far as eye could reach, — ■ 

 about ten miles. Scarcely any water to be seen, and yet 

 the spot where we stood, sixty-five feet above the river bed, 

 showed that at high tide this wonderful basin must be filled 

 to the brim. Opposite to us, indeed, the country is diked 

 in, and vessels left dry at the wharves had a strange appear- 

 ance. We are told that there have been instances when 

 vessels have slid sidewise from the top of the bank to the 

 level of the gravelly bed of the river. The shores are 

 covered for a hundred yards with mud of a reddish color. 

 This conveys more the idea of a flood or great freshet 

 than the result of tide, and I long to see the waters of the 

 ocean advancing at the rate of four knots an hour to 

 fill this extraordinary basin; this sight I hope to enjoy 

 to-morrow. 



August 28. I can now say that I have seen the tide 

 waters of the Bay of Fundy rise sixty-five feet.^ We were 

 1 See Episode, " The Bay of Fundy. 



