Down North and Up Along 
about the quiet fields and these worn old 
trees, which harmonises with our conceptions 
of Acadian life. 
From Grand Pre to Horton's Landing is a 
pleasant walk of about a mile, but pleasanter 
than Horton's Landing itself is a grassy lane 
near there, which ends at a stile upon which 
one can sit and look at the broad marshes and 
meadow-lands where the Gaspereaux winds 
through red mud at low tide to empty into 
the near waters of Minas, and at high tide is 
lost in the sea that covers the sands. 
The lowlands near the mouth of the Gas- 
pereaux formed a combination of meadow and 
marsh lands which we could not understand. 
There were dikes, but they seemed incom- 
plete and ineffectual, and later we learned 
how a great storm had broken through and 
let in the sea, and how these dikes, whose 
cost of repair so close to turbulent Minas 
had made them a questionable blessing, had 
not been rebuilt. Remnants of them are 
seen, but the triumphant tides have it all 
their own way, and once more the yellow 
marsh grass decorates the rich red soil. 
Wherever accessible, the marsh grass is cut 
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