FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. 



AGAINST the Bay of Fundy, with its fogs and 

 turbulent waters, Nova Scotia presents a bold 

 front of bastion and moat combined. The bas- 

 tion is called North Mountain, and is a well- 

 wooded ridge running parallel to the southeast 

 shore of the Bay of Fundy for nearly its entire 

 length. The moat consists of St. Mary's Bay, 

 the Annapolis Basin, and the Basin of Minas, 

 and their tributary rivers, all lying within the 

 line of North Mountain. Parallel with both 

 bastion and moat, and presiding over the well- 

 tilled fields which border the several basins, is 

 South Mountain, from whose height can be ob- 

 tained the finest views of the land of Evan- 

 geline, and its impressive central figure, the 

 spruce-covered, storm-haunted Blomidon. 



When we landed at Yarmouth, far down near 

 the southern tip of Nova Scotia, and saw the 

 monotonous country which is characteristic of 

 that part of the province, something very much 

 like gloom settled upon our spirits. We took 

 an early morning train, and started eastward 

 and northward towards Blomidon. Rain, miles 



