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ward, on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy. We 

 were now to the west of Cape Enrage, and enjoyed an 

 uninterrupted view over the muddy waters of the Bay of 

 Fundy, and across the bay to the western termination of 

 the Cobequid mountains of Nova Scotia. Descending to 

 the shore, the two horns of the cove were seen to consist 

 of red sandstones and marls, dipping on the eastern 

 side south-east, and on the western south-west j while 

 between them was an interval of a quarter of a mile of 

 grey sandstone drift, forming a cliff thirty or forty feet 

 high, arid apparently rilling up one of the deep gulley- 

 like valleys which so often separate the rocky ridges of 

 this country from one another. 



Mists prevail from May to October, and are injurious 

 to the crops as far up as the head of Shepody Bay ; but 

 around Salisbury Cove they are more hurtful than in 

 any other part of the country. In July and August the 

 mischief to the wheat-crops is the greatest, the united 

 action of the moisture and of the great heat of these 

 months being most productive of rust. 



We returned along the western side of the Shepody 

 River, through a picturesque but poorer country, with 

 occasional good farms and settlements ; and, lingering on 

 the rich land between the mouth of this river and 

 Shepody Mountain, we regained our inn at Hopewell 

 soon after nightfall. 



I suppose it is owing in some degree to the frequent 

 intercourse with the United States which the inhabitants 

 of this upper part of the Bay of Fundy maintain, through 

 their plaster, their grindstones, and their fish, that I 

 found the sense of imaginary grievances arising from 

 English connection more strong, and the Annexation 

 feeling warmer, about Sackville, and on Shepody Bay, 

 than in almost any other part of the province I had yet 

 visited. I had found it so also at Annapolis, in Nova 

 Scotia, towards the mouth of this same Bay of Fundy 



