Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-07

vice than to suggest new and hitherto IN
trodden field for the tourist, the sportsman,
or the mere seeker of health.
Within twenty-four hours sail of the good
almost nominal rate of fare, Give dollars
only, return tickets eight dollars,) lies
the thriving town of Yarmouth, at the
southeast angle of the Province of
Nova Scotia locality specially favored by
nature-where the Thermometer never falls
in winter below zero, and never rises in sum-
mer much above 750 where the English ivy
and the Scottish broom flourish unsheltered
throughout the year where abundance of
fish and game are to be had for the taking;
and where, above all, the good people have
not yet learned the art of putting the
screws" on travellers. Your correspondent
has been there and knows whereof he af-
firms.
Few places worth visiting can be reached
with less trouble than Yarmouth. The trav-
eler has but to step on board the steamer
Dominion" at Lewis wharf, Boston, few
minutes before noon on Tuesday, and at
noon on the following day he may land on
| terra 7i1nad, which il this case happens to be
| Nova Scotia.
Here he may have his choice among several
excellent hotels the leading one of which,
the Yarmouth Hotel, is run by the Nova
Scotia Mast" B. Balfour Brown, Esq.
| Our blue nose cousins do not affect such til
i NO4OA1SA1
| house fills much the same position in local
| estimation there that the fremont of Boston
used to some thirty years since. Its proprie-
tor, at all events, is genial host keeps q
capital table and charges only reasonable
1 prices. After a nights repose and having
| done the sights of Yarmouth, the traveller
will of course want to be off to the fishing
grounds. His wishes can be most easily
gratiied. The finest piscatorial haunts of
the Tusket river, with its numerous branches
fed by nearly three hundred lakes, is within
two or three hours drive; the roads are
among the finest and smoothest on
| the continent; and excellent teams are
to be obtained at a reasonable figure. Of the
fshing-whether trout or salmon-your
correspondent has only to say that there is
nothing finer to be found this side of the
Atlantic slope If the pleasure seeker has a
| taste for salt sea fishing he may indulge in it
to his hearts content. In the neighboring
Bay of Fundy, the blue waters of which may
be seen from the windows of his hotel he
will find bank that will duly honor every
draft he may make upon it's scaly treasures,
conspicuous among which is the gigantic
halibut, which is to be caught of all sizes,
from eighteen inches to seven or eight feet
in length.
The drives in the vicinity of the town are
delightful, the scenery being richly diversi-
fed and the roads remarkably smooth and
free from dust.
Within couple of hours drive may be
reached several hanlets of the descendants
of Longfellow's expatriated Acadians, sim
| pie, but by no means so mournful a crowd as
the poet makes them out to be.
| For those who are fond of boating or gun.
ming there is rare sport to be had among the
| Tuskets, a group of islands lying few miles
to the southeast of the entrance of Yarmouth
} harbor, and numbering (traditionally) three
hundred and sixty five.
The climate of the place is exceptionally
agreeable. There are rarely more than three
or four days during the summer whichever
| in the estimation of native-would be pro
nounced uncomfortably warm, and the VIC
lent alterations of heat and cold which pre-
vail elsewhere on this continent are unknown
there. The market is well supplied at al
seasons with the ruling delicacies, vegetable
: or otherwise the earliest to appear being i'm
portations from the United States.
When the tourist has done the attractions
J of Yarmouth, he has his choice of severa
modes of exit. He may take the steamer
, | Dominion" once more en- route for st
John. New Brunswick, or he may prefer
coasting voyage to Halifax per the steame
} | edgar Stuart" or the railroad to Digby
| thence by steamer on the Annapolis Basin tt
7 the ancient and historic town of Annapolis
and SO reach the romantic valley of Crane
Pre-, the classic scene of Longfellow'
l | Evangeline, and one of the finest agricul
? tural regions of Nova Scotia.
| The trip is one well worth making TIL,
, people of Yarmouth are descendants for tn,
most part of the Puritan settlers of New
England, and it is interesting to notice hoy
the qualities inherent in the good old stool
have made themselves manifest in buildin
up free, prosperous and progressive com
munity. Furthermore the people of Nov
: Scotia seem to take quite an interest for tn
welfare of visitors to their shores.