Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-21
A Trip 10 Nova Scotia.

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Ed. ChroniclexOn the morning {
June 10th we left Bethany, w. Va
with its seven hills and beautiful see
merry, renderedtmore attractive by til
College buildings the perfection, almos
Of architectural beauty-and on tn
evening of the 29th we touched at An
napolis, n. s., which is said to hav
+ been the first town on the Continent
having been founded by the French il
1865 and called Port Royal.
\ We shall not detain you but pas
over the road much more rapidly thai
we were hurried. The Pittsburgh
train was filled with visitors returnin;
!. from the annual commencement o
Bethany, and students anxious to SCI
home and friends once more. Gu
company appeared lively-but Their
was many a sad heart. Students, likt
brothers, with whom we had enjoyed
the pleasures and endured the hard
ships of College life were being carried
to almost every state, perhaps never t.
return or meet again on earth. The
Student knows what it means. Hav
1 ing left the noisy hum and black smoke
fof Pittsburgh, you may glance for 6
moment at the Allegheny mountains
in the distance, covered with emerald
| the earliest and richest of the season
and mingling its shade with the mel
\ low tint of sunset.
We passed through the great city Of
Altoona in the evening, Harrisburg al
the dead of night, and arrived in Phil
adeIphia at daybreak. The city was
already alive and the rising sun added
splendor 10 beauty. Nothing Of i'm
portance occurred during the night, ex-
'eept a train ran off and we were walked
by the loud laughing of passengers at
the demonstrations of an elderly mai
den lady and her lap dog. The dog
would whine his feelings and attempt
to kiss her, Che was dirty mop) and
she caressing him almost smothered
him with kisses.
Between Philadelphia and Fulton
the crops showed signs of drouth tho
the country seems well adapted to far
ming. Fulton is q fine clean city and
here we stopped for dinner.
= At three o'clock we were in Jersey
city, and crossing TO New York found
many waiting friends (?) who seemed
anxious to converse and offered to as
sist US but we We're in hurry and eya-
ded their questions. At New York we
took the steamer Providence for Fall
River. 1t was a lovely evening and
the scenery with 'sHall's celebrated
Brass Band and Orchestra" delighted
US until we could see 10 more and the
sweet tones of the Orchestra lulled us
to sweet repose. AT two o'clock my
companion was pulled from his birth
by a negro, who, thinking he wished
to go ashore at Newport thought to
obiige him; but you may imagine his
chagrin when he vainly tried to sleep
again. l awoke just in time to take
the train for Boston where we arrived
in about three hours. From here we
went to Reading, the most beautiiUl
town. | have seen, here we spent about
.hree days boating, fishing and driving.
It is beautiful drive to MI. Auburn
ind Bunker Hill. We assembled the |
monument, which is two hundred and
wenty-one feet high, and obtained q
rood view of CharlestoWn and the Sea
From Boston we came on the Steam
hip 'eNew York" to St. John n. b.,
~ way of Portland, East Port and
Lake. The weather was fine and not
many were sick. But when we went
lboard "The Empressn and were cross
ng the Bay of Fundy, which is salways
oqgh, many were sea-sick; and all
we're glad when we passed through
1igby Gut and entered the quiet basin /;
,fthe Annapolis river. Then we took
he train running to Halifax and were
unused at7sthe~ numerousaadvertise ,
nents on the Car walls. The Cars were
i'd and, the Engine ludicrous. Here
We felt the Inconvenience of Nova SEQ
ia coin. In the first place we paid a '
of almost twenty per cent {
q. the, second place the weight almost
'ulled our pockets out and the third
fouble was that he could not count it. ]
Iere isa "SiX-pence" and SHILLING"
nd a ,.Victoria del Gratia'-how !;
luch. The first learn is twelve and a
he, second twenty-four cents, bat the [
hird l am not certain yet, but l
couldn't take five-dollar greenback !
or all Notwithstanding ]
Halifax is city of about thirty thou i
md inhabitants, situated on declivi- q
Y whose. summit is crowned with ci- =
ldeL The harbor is the most magni-
can't in America and carved by Ma |
lre's hand. .-. .... 4
l am writing in CORVALLIS, situated b
etween the North aud South Noun IL
lin rangcs-although country place =
can with good glass count more !"
ian five hundred houses. The rivers h
low-tide look like small streams but il
leir muddy banks are washed by the =
a-water to the depth of nearly eighty ~
ct. Once the sea covered nearly all
Ie valley but they shut it out by dykes .,
I'd thousands Of acres yield from two Fl
four tons per acre of timothy hay and fiji
,yer require any fertilizer. But /
ose for the present. l. j. S. h;