The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-02-16
TIA Nv 81 Isady.
ny REV. JOHN TODD. D. D.

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tales Of tl,e bay of EusdH He reads o
thl<s s,ssiss ~ E'sty, Pt1ty. aud ever
seventy feet -(tlMi'gh fear tn
child gets lat 4 sl,adswy idre IT vha
seventy ket means, Unless 'his tenci,e
hu- one faculty.. which every one doe,
mt bave.} lie wond<rs--H his ,,,i,l.
has learned to l's lnqnisi,ive-wl'y tn
ti.'., ,sI,,xild Lc ~ much higher there
I,ahi III otl'~r places. let ind txpiai'i !
. him. Sulunss. the shore TO he al
hard rack against WHEN The Athhtt!,
NJ AT ats its waves. Now suppose 1
.;r,sss Mt.l,< to w. drive, intoAthst eiiofl
: so big that il is All hundred aud more
miles acrtAslube lily enA--ahI0it taper.
like any Wedge towards the other end
;uriv.e ,lis we.lss ~ exte'sii w ihte
...c land an !.uudred miles aud more
rLi-sis tt,-'Baytuf Fundy. Nov when
tile tides come ins the waters cutter this
wide, end of The wedge. bat as they. &c
up and the wrl-c becomes narrower,
=, ll,y mist r,Ie j., hack, or eIse rise up
nis Lsr, BAT rs they have the ,whu.e
A:apiic Orean belji,d them, they caq't
so Back. aud must, Of course, rise III,
This makes the high ti,ies there. Aid
s.s the wedge grows narrow fast, they
must not only rise up, but rusi, in and
out with great speed ard power; ~ that,
at tire head ri the Bay, i;lsry ~ actually
rise AMI fall seveni y-uae feet with every
tide. The waters literally rash IN and
out. At one place. at low water, the
sandy lottom I. lrft i,sre for miles. On
these fats the hogs love to forage for
crabs, clans, or any thing left BY the
tides. they wa'nier aud feed with great
| delight: but when the oldest nf the com.
lai,y hears the first rusl, III the t.un,i ing
tide, miles off. Lee gives u squral aud
.cnn'lers, aud oil now follow AM! run
for dear life. 1.-THE winds are strong
and bring IN the waters faster than COM
mon. these fellows have to run the fas
ter; and run and squenl they 10, aud
even then the Tide Is sometimes tot, fast
for them, and the younger aud the short.
legged get overtaken aud buried under
the waves. The first wave is their wind
ing sheet.
used to wonder how these vast, rush.
ing waters could he check ed and stopp.
ed-what kind of breaks could he put on
them to stop them, or what kind Of
high, rocky n,ounsnin stuad to receive
their laundering blows a. they reached
the head or heads OF The Bay. Nothing
Of this. When the roaring monsters
reach the 'end Of their wedge, instead
OF stopping, laundering and foaming
against the everlasting rocks, they find
. vast mea,low-a basin Of silt mud, 40
square miles, 81, OoO acres in extent. Up
through these meadows are hundreds of
cI,annels-be.is Of little rivers-somc of
them - miles lung, and softly, gently,
these terrific tides are ens,d Of up into |
these 5chan,,els--n,any hundreds III
number. aud the cra.lle Of an infant
could not he rocked more gently, than
these waters are managed hv these mead.
ows. Tie roar becomes. a nurmur, and
then u soft ripple, aud then n silence.
In the high spring tides, all this gr, at
exransc Is Owe: flowed for time, and a
rich deposit Of rcd mud Is left, md this
:ccr;i iz's tho meadows. Hence
world VI hay Of the finest quality. Here
u the p!aee In ssise cattle and beef, and
file New England traveller is snrl,ri.cd
to find the hest " beef ut : cts. per b.,
butter %, meals Mt hotels % cts. and
sometimes the lodging thrown in! Ev-
cry man WHO cnn, gets a slice Of this
meadow. And the bunk Of every such
arm rs I have described Is all artificial
emtankment TO keep the ordinary tides
from getting oil the meadow. There Is
still much meadow IL he sul.iued, which |
means, 'clcar of the little bushes, build
your dam, and let the waters ut spring
tides on to it." The mud deposited in I
two or three years makes it the best Of |
soil, ard the producer OF the very best OF !,
hay. ~'
In saiin. along the coast of Maine, !
New Brunswick aud Nova Scotia, the |
traveller would have n fearful impress
sion Of thoee regions, the bare rock is
lands. the naked bluffs, the drcnry look
ing hills. The rock bound hea,llands aud
bays; but ii he goes back from the shore,
hc ii,ds, especially In the river. valleys,
beautiful land, rich soil, and often, a
delightful country. In whiting Nova
Scotia, he will tind . level country, ane
roads, ma ~ nice farms. now and then
region where the apple is most per
Get, ard everywhere Ia. potato. infe-
'ior t" r"nc he las ever s,cn. Tie seas
and hay 3 abound IN fish, and perhaps u
third Of I've population obtain their Iiv-
irg hy !>hilg; and he will hnd some
of the most charming islands and bays,
and many sunny spot. In the inte-
rior, he will find but small part Of the
aDd reclaimed. Vast forests and swamps
arc everywhere found, where the moose,
tie carlton, aud the hear, still lave
their home. The latter is very destruc-
tive 10 sheep. The people are mixture
of races, Scotch, English, American,
and French. The Nlic-mac Indians are
scattered through the provinces, some
say to the number Of 10000. They are
chiefly Catholics; harmless race,
much freer from gross vices than most
Indians. They are not SO Gag r for
whisky, aud have never been Garlike.
They seem more like. overgrown chill.
dren than most aboriginals.
The people in the interior arc sober,
sedatc, and industrious in their way;
but their movements are so slow, that
it almost c,ucifiesa Yankee to deal wi it'll
them. All along the rMds sou find