Having Received Information By Mail That "Hosses And Carages" Are To Be
Found At Parrsboro, And That The Sailing Of The Steamer Is "Rooled By
The Tide," Eager Looks Are Cast About On Alighting At That Charming
Village, The Natives Of Which, To Our Surprise, Are Not Backwoodsmen Or
Rough Countrymen.
Mine host, genial and gentlemanly, becomes visible;
and we are soon bowling merrily along through the neat village, the
Picturesque country beyond, and are set down at a refreshingly
old-timey inn directly on the shore of the Basin of Minas, which bursts
suddenly upon the view, amazing one by its extent and beauty. We exclaim
in surprise, "Why, it looked no larger than one's thumb nail on the
map!"
THE BASIN OF MINAS
A curving beach with rolling surf, a long and very high pier, showing
the great rise of the tide, - at this point sixty feet in the spring, -
and directly before one the peculiarly striking promontory of Blomidon,
with the red sandstone showing through the dark pines clothing his
sides, and at his feet a powerful "rip" tossing the water into chopped
seas; a current so strong that a six-knot breeze is necessary to carry
a vessel through the passage which here opens into the Bay of Fundy.
This is the place where schedules said nothing of a boat to convey the
tourist across the inland sea - of thirty miles' width - to the railroad
on its south shore, - the line which bears on its rolling stock the
ominous initials W. A. R, but passes through the most peaceful country
nevertheless.
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