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the estuary of the main river, round which our road ran. 

 Some good land skirts these bays, and abundance of 

 fertilising sea and mussel mud fills their bottoms when 

 the tide has retired. Oak Bay, into which the Gallop 

 falls, is pretty. There is a village on its banks scat 

 tered white houses around the curved shore cleared 

 and productive land skirting its margin a distant back 

 ground of high hills, abounding in wood islands on 

 its bosom shipping at anchor on various points and 

 beyond the mouth of the bay, and across the broad 

 river, the frontiers of another empire. With these 

 materials, a little sunshine, a light heart, a pleasant 

 companion, and the charm of novelty, the reader will 

 easily make up for himself a pretty picture. 



Before descending upon St Stephens, a more striking 

 view presents itself. On the right, and sweeping far 

 behind, is the semicircular Glendinriing Ridge of trap- 

 rocks, superior in soil, and cleared to the summit while 

 on the front and on the left are the rival towns of Calais 

 and St Stephens, with their churches and their numerous 

 whitened houses, on its opposite shores, embracing each 

 other by a bridge across the narrowed stream where 

 tide-water ceases. Of the two towns, Calais is the 

 larger, has the greater number of churches and other 

 public buildings, and by much the more numerous fleet 

 of ships along its wharves and jetties. To a lover of 

 progress, it will certainly be a pleasant sight, turning 

 from stony barrens and difficult swamps, to look upon a 

 scene of so much industrial life as the head of the broad 

 tide-water channel of the St Croix River presents ; and 

 I longed as much to cross and examine Calais, and to 

 compare it with St Stephens, as if I had not previously 

 visited any of the many other flourishing towns of which 

 the United States can boast. 



It was nearly dark when we arrived in St Stephens ; 

 and found comfortable quarters in Dover Street the 



