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The same remarks need slight qualification when appheJ to the Bay 

 of Fundy, and its principal branch, the Bay of Passamaquoddy. Cam^ 

 eron's, Doggett's, Drake's, Woodward's, Money, and Whale coves; 

 Dark harbor, Long's eddy. Grand harbor, and Long, Duck, Nan- 

 tucket, and Kent's islands, which are all in the group of islands known 

 as "Grand Menan," afford excellent facilities lor catching and curing 

 cod, pollock, and herring, in large quantities. In the waters that sur- 

 round Campo Bello, Deer, and Indian islands, as well as in those that 

 wash Bean's, Adams's, Parker's, Minister's, Hardwood, and Fish 

 islands, and along the coast between L'Etite Passage and Point Le- 

 preau, embracing Mace's and Back bays, Bhss's island, Seely's cove, 

 Crow, Beaver, and Deadman's harbors, the advantages for fishing are 

 very good. Every place here mentioned is within a few hours' sail of 

 the frontier ports of Maine, and many of them are within cannon-shot 

 distance of the shores of the United States. The fishermen of both 

 countries meet on the same fishing grounds; borrow and lend "bait;" 

 ask after each other's "woman"* at home; narrate the wonderful cures 

 of the last-discovered remedy for the "reumatis;" complain of the 

 "scacity" offish, and the low price of "ile;" discourse about "flat- 

 hooped flour;" and generally conduct towards one another as friends' 

 and brethren, owing allegiance to one government. Indeed, the obser- 

 vation of quite twenty-five years authorizes me to say that the colonists 

 always agree far better with the Americans than witli each other. Our 

 countrymen are not often considered interlopers when they leave the 

 fishing grounds nearest home and visit those of Grand Menan ; but the 

 fishermen of Campo Bello, and the other islands on the British side of the 

 Passamaquoddy, are sometimes roughly accosted and "twitted" when 

 they venture to take the same liberty. Frequent attempts have been made 

 to disturb the friendly relations which have generally existed between the 

 people of the two flags, but without su^ccess. The efforts of officious indi- 

 viduals, and of functionaries of the colonial government, have been alike 

 disregarded. The captains of the British ships-of-war on the station, gen- 

 tlemen in their feelings, have steadily refused to stoop to wage a petty 

 warfai-e against the American boats that cross the imaginary boundary 

 line in the waters of the Passamaquoddy, though, of course, they have 

 always obeyed their instructions. Yet, in the spirit of Nelson, who looked 

 at the signal he meant to disobey with his blind eye, they have never 

 been able to see a "Yankee," or to distinguish one from a subject of her 

 Majest3\ Some of them — as I remember the stories of by-gone years — 

 admitting the necessity of driving off the aggressors, have asked, "How 

 are we to know them — are they marlccdV Others, sending their barges 

 into the fleet of boats, have directed that "All who say they are Amer- 

 icans must be told to go to their own side of the line;" but, strangely 

 enough, the unbroken silence of the fishermen to whom the question 

 was propounded afforded proof that all were " Bluenoses." Still others, 

 satisfying themselves, by peering through glasses from their quarter- 

 deck, that all the boats in sight must belong to the islands in New Bruns- 

 wick, have thought the sending of barges to inquire a needless cere- 

 mony. One, in 1840 — the captain of the Ringdove — in his official 



They thus speak of thoir wives. 



