Cannon Field 
their lobster-claw pipes ; and in spite of their 
precarious tenure of home and life in a country 
of savages, revelling through that winter of 
long ago and instituting the Order of the Good 
Time. They had their fun, but it did not last, 
for enemies in the mother country as well as 
from abroad quickly shifted the actors from one 
scene to another ; and out of the confusion of 
the times there stands clearly but one poetic 
form, that of a woman, Madame La Tour. 
Perhaps she does not belong specially to Port 
Royal, but she does belong to the history of 
that time ; and by her heroic deeds has earned 
a place in the memory of man, — a place which 
will be recognised when her poet arises to sing 
her into fame. She stands waiting, a dim fig- 
ure, for the Longfellow who shall take her by 
the hand and place her glowing in the eyes and 
the hearts of the people. 
The Annapolis River, which enters the head 
of the Basin, owes the greater part of its vol- 
ume to the tide- water. Its channel is deep and 
gullied, as seen at low tide, and its banks are 
composed of sleek, shining mud that, half the 
time uncovered, yet never has time to dry. As 
we follow its course we see the ships lying 
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