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sec, to the village of Macadavic. If the starry nights 

 be more bright and beautiful than we enjoy at home, 

 certainly the moonless and cloudy ones are as much 

 more obscure and impenetrable. 



November 8. The town of St George, or Magagua- 

 davic, abbreviated into Macadavic, stands on the lower 

 falls of a river of this latter name, ten miles above its 

 entrance into Passamaquoddy Bay. The falls are high, 

 five in succession making together a hundred feet, the 

 body of water great, and the power immense. Large saw 

 and other mills, therefore, have long been erected along 

 the narrow gorge through which the water rushes ; and 

 a town has sprung up containing several indifferent inns, 

 an Episcopal, and two or three other places of worship, 

 and the usual supply of comfortable houses for the 

 lawyers, doctors, and dealers of the place. After break 

 fast, we engaged a light waggon, and drove ten miles 

 up the river to the higher falls, where we found exten 

 sive saw-mills, and a village, chiefly of persons connected 

 with and supported by the mills. Some fine scenery, 

 bold hills and precipices crowned with wood, long bends 

 and reaches of the river, and extensive intervales, made 

 our drive pleasant ; but the land in general was poor 

 sandy on the intervales and stony on the upland and 

 thinly settled. This river runs a long course of sixty 

 miles through the province, taking its principal rise in a 

 lake of the same name ; but, for the most part, it passes 

 through a poor, slaty, or metamorphic country ; and, 

 except where it occasionally widens, and forms desirable 

 patches of intervale-land, there are few settlers along* 

 its banks, or in the country through which it flows. I 

 suppose it is to the possession of poor land like this that 

 the proverb they have in New Brunswick especially 

 applies &quot; Land is like self-righteous men ; the more a 

 man has, the worse he is.&quot; 



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