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rather five of us entered it, as it would hold no more, and 

 one was obliged to take an outside seat in the rain. The 

 road from Halifax to Windsor is macadamized and good, 

 jvinding through undulating hills and valleys ; our horses 

 were good, and although we had but one pair at a time, 

 we travelled six and a half miles an hour. For more 

 than nine miles our course was along the borders of the 

 Bay of Halifax ; the view was pleasant, and here and 

 there we noticed tolerably gook-looking summer-houses. 

 Near the head of this bay, said the driver, an English 

 fleet pursued a squadron of seven French ships, and forc- 

 ed them to haul down their colors ; but the French com- 

 mander, or admiral, sunk all his vessels, preferring to do 

 this to surrendering them to the British. The water was 

 so deep at this place that the tops of the masts of the 

 vessels went deep out of sight, and have been seen only 

 once since then, which was more than twenty years ago. 



" We passed the abandoned lodge of Prince Edward, 

 who spent about one million of pounds on this building 

 and the grounds, but the whole is now a ruin ; thirty 

 years have passed since it was in its splendor. On leav- 

 ing the waters of the bay, we followed those of the Sal- 

 mon River, a small rivulet of swift water, which abounds 

 with salmon, trout, elwines, &c. The whole countiy is 

 poor, veiy poor, yet under tolerable cultivation all the 

 way. We passed the seat of Mr. Jeffries, the President 

 of the Assembly, now Acting Governor ; his house is 

 good-looking, large, and the grounds around it are in fine 

 order. It is situated between two handsome fresh-water 

 lakes ; indeed the whole country through which we trav- 

 elled is interspersed with lakes, all of them abounding 

 in trout and eels. 



" We passed the college and common school, both 

 looking well, and built of fine freestone ; a church and 

 sevei al other fine buildings line the road, on which the 



