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lowing are given from a somewhat unwillingly extended 

 experience. 



Take the night train or any route that will bring you 

 to Boston before half past seven a.m., for at that hour 

 the boat leaves for St. John, not St. Johns, which is in 

 Newfoundland. If you are too late, you may still, by 

 means of. the cars, intercept the same vessel at Port- 

 land. This boat does not leave daily, but generally 

 advertises in the New York and always in the Boston 

 papers. It touches at Portland, where you may take a 

 steamboat on its arrival to Calais, and proceed thence 

 by railroad to the Scoodic Eiver, where there is fine 

 white, not sea, trout fishing, or stop at St. Andrews, 

 whence there is a railroad in progress to "Woodstock, on 

 the St. John River. The Boston boat reaches St. John 

 in about thirty- two hours, or at three o'clock ; the fare 

 is six dollars ; the meals extra, and, consequently, extra 

 good. 



The "Waverley House, in St. John, kept by J. Scam- 

 mell, affords the best, though poor, accommodation, at a 

 reasonable price. A train leaves on the arrival of the 

 boat for Shediac, and makes the one hundred and ten 

 miles in six hours, at a fare of three dollars. From She- 

 diac a steamboat that connects with the train carries you 

 to Chatham in twelve hours for three dollars and fifty 

 cents, the meals being extra and infamous. At Shediac. 

 John Q. Adams keeps the Adams House, and will fur- 

 nish information by letter as to the time of the starting 

 of the boats. Bowser's Hotel is the best in Chatham. 

 From Chatham to Bathurst, forty-fiye miles, you are 

 compelled to travel in a stage that only leaves three 



