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VIEWS^ The gut or entrance into the harbour of Annapolis Royal is narrow, and has not 



lefs grandeur, neither is it wholly diffimilar. The ifle of Haute, which Hes id the 

 middle of the approach to the bay oi Mines, rifes fublime and with mural fides out of 

 the water, and is crowned with trees : from it is feen vaft variety of beautiful fcenery ; 

 fuch as Cape ChigneSIo, Cape Dare, and Cape Split ; the lail named from the vaft co- 

 lumnar rocks which rife before it to an amazing height. Nearly oppofite is Par- 

 tridge IJland, remarkable for the inclined difpofition of its rocks. Cape Bloiv-me- 

 doivn is another great precipice, not far to the eaft. Between thefe the ftream of 

 41IGR TIDES the current runs at the rate of five or fix knots, even at neap tides. The tides in 

 parts of the bay of Fundy rife to an amazing height, and force themfclves into the 

 great creeks with a bore or head from fifty to feventy-two feet high, and with 

 prodigious rapidity. Hogs, which feed along the ftiores, are much more fenfible 

 of its approach than mankind : they are obferved to ]i(Ven,' to prick up their ears 

 for fome time, and then run off at full fpeed. 



THE ISTHMUS. 



The bay of ChigneSio is the laft. This runs far inland, and is feparated by the 

 ifthmus from the gulph of St. Laurence. If we reckon to Bay Vert, it is only 

 twenty miles in breadth; but if we compute the fpace between Petendiac river and 

 Shediac, on the fide of the gulph, only fourteen. From hence the fliore extends to 

 the fouth-weft ; and we retain as far as the river St. Croix. ^ 



