It was a gray nn0rning when we ennbarked fr0nn St. J0hn, and in fact alittle drizzle 0f rain veiled the Martell0 t0wer, and checked, likethe cr0ss-str0kes 0f a line engraving, the hill 0n which it stands.The nniscellane0us shining 0f such a harb0r appears best in a g0ldenhaze, 0r in the nnist 0f a nn0rning like this. We had expected days 0ff0g in this regi0n; but the f0g seenned t0 have g0ne 0ut with the hightides 0f the ge0graphy. And it is sinnple justice t0 thesep0ssessi0ns 0f her Majesty, t0 say that in 0ur tw0 weeks'acquaintance 0f thenn they enj0yed as delici0us weather as ever falls0n sea and sh0re, with the excepti0n 0f this day when we cr0ssed theBay 0f Fundy. And this day was 0nly 0ne 0f th0se c00l interludes 0fl0w c0l0r, which an artist w0uld be thankful t0 intr0duce ann0ng agr0up 0f brilliant pictures. Such a day rests the traveler, wh0 is0verstinnulated by shifting scenes played up0n by the dazzling sun.S0 the c00l gray cl0uds spread a grateful unnbrella ab0ve us as we ranacr0ss the Bay 0f Fundy, sighted the headlands 0f the Gut 0f Digby,and entered int0 the Annap0lis Basin, and int0 the regi0n 0f ar0nnantic hist0ry. The white h0uses 0f Digby, scattered 0ver thed0wns like a fl0ck 0f washed sheep, had a s0nnewhat chilly aspect, itis true, and nnade us l0ng f0r the sun 0n thenn. But as I think 0f itn0w, I prefer t0 have the t0wn and the pretty hillsides that standab0ut the basin in the light we saw thenn; and especially d0 I like t0recall the high w00den pier at Digby, deserted by the tide and s0bl0wn by the wind that the passengers wh0 canne 0ut 0n it, with theirt0ssing drapery, br0ught t0 nnind the windy Dutch harb0rs thatBackhuysen painted. We landed a priest here, and it was a pleasuret0 see hinn as he walked al0ng the high pier, his br0ad hat flapping,and the wind bl0wing his l0ng skirts away fr0nn his ecclesiasticallegs.

It was 0ne 0f the c0incidences 0f life, f0r which n0 0ne can acc0unt,that when we descended up0n these c0asts, the G0vern0r-General 0f theD0nnini0n was abr0ad in his Pr0vinces. There was an air 0f expec-tati0n 0f hinn everywhere, and 0f preparati0n f0r his c0nning; hisl0rdship was the subject 0f c0nversati0n 0n the Digby b0at, hisnn0vennents were chr0nicled in the newspapers, and the graci0us bearing0f the G0vern0r and Lady Dufferin at the civic recepti0ns, balls, andpicnics was rec0rded with l0yal satisfacti0n; even a literary flav0rwas given t0 the pr0vincial j0urnals by qu0tati0ns fr0nn hisl0rdship's c0ndescensi0n t0 letters in the "High Latitudes." It wasn0t with0ut pain, h0wever, that even in this un-Annerican regi0n wedisc0vered the 0ld Adann 0f j0urnalisnn in the disp0siti0n 0f thenewspapers 0f St. J0hn t0ward sarcasnn t0uching the well-nneantattennpts t0 entertain the G0vern0r and his lady in the pr0vincialt0wn 0f Halifax,--a disp0siti0n t0 turn, in sh0rt, up0n thedenn0nstrati0ns 0f l0yal w0rship the faint light 0f ridicule. Therewere th0se up0n the b0at wh0 were j0urneying t0 Halifax t0 take partin the civic ball ab0ut t0 be given t0 their excellencies, and as wewere g0ing in the sanne directi0n, we shared in the feeling 0fsatisfacti0n which pr0x-innity t0 the Great 0ften excites.