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" Ripley " had ever gone from this mighty port to Labrador. 

 Our numerous friends came with the throng, and we all 

 shook hands as if never to meet again. The batteries of 

 the garrison, and the cannon of the revenue cutter, saluted 

 us, each firing four loud, oft-echoing reports. Captain 

 Coolidge accompanied us, and indeed was our pilot, until 

 we had passed Lubec. The wind was light and ahead, 

 and yet with the assistance of the tide we drifted twenty- 

 five miles, down to Little River, during the night, and on 

 rising on the morning of June 7 we were at anchor near 

 son.e ugly rocks, the sight of which was not pleasing to 

 our good captain. 



June 7. The whole morning was spent trying to enter 

 Little River, but in vain ; the men were unable to tow us 

 in. We landed for a few minutes, and shot a Hermit 

 Thrush, but the appearance of a breeze brought us back, 

 and we attempted to put to sea. Our position now be- 

 came rather dangerous, as we were drawn by the current 

 nearly upon the rocks ; but the wind rose at last, and we 

 cleared for sea. At three o'clock it became suddenly so 

 foggy that we could not see the bowsprit. The night was 

 spent in direful apprehensions of ill luck; at midnight a 

 smart squall decided in our favor, and when day broke on 

 the morning of June 8 the wind was from the northeast, 

 blowing fresh, and we were dancing on the waters, all 

 shockingly sea-sick, crossing that worst of all dreadful bays, 

 the Bay of Fundy. We passed between the Seal Islands 

 and the Mud Islands; in the latter Procellaria wi/somi, 

 the Stormy Petrel, breeds abundantly; their nests are 

 dug out of the sand in an oblique direction to the depth 

 of two, or two and a half feet. At the bottom of these 

 holes, and on the sand, the birds deposit their pure white 

 eggs. The holes are perforated, not in the banks like the 

 Bank Swallow, but are like rat holes over the whole of 

 the islands. On Seal Islands Larus argentattis, the Her- 

 ring Gull, breeds as abundantly as on Grand Menan, but 



