New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
AC1DIE.
MEMORIES OF THE PAST AND SCENES OF
THE PRESENT.

MEMORIES OF THE PAST AND SCENES OF
THE PRESENT.
fFnoM Az .soSAL CORRESPONDENT oP THE TRIBUNE!
BRIDGErOwN \. s, Aug. 25.-The summer
days OF Nova Scotia seldom uueomfort1by warm.
whc the nights always delightfully."- cool Not only
ia be climate of Valley 0f the Annapolis superla
lively hcalthful and delightful but its residents
a peculiarly hospitable. agreeable people, while the
forests hereab abound In iat moose snd friendly
Boo waes" and the nounI ain streams are alive with
frsti-c trout and goOd.naIured amun Many veteran
METROPOLITAN trouter" would believe he had struck
bonanza could his appreciatye behold the size OF
the monsters landed after effort, afternoon
shorty after my ARRIVAL from Hub" the banks
of mill stream far iro here But shan't Disgrace
my calling 0y prevarcatng alb Iut tn0se trout However
tie sporting facilities Of The country are excellent.
The scenery OF the Annapolis Yailey H. o: course,
dered even interesting oy the historic associations
which have haowed many locality hercabouia or
cours Il refreshing O. the stu tent OF history to learn
that European settlements in America were very young
when the French eutered Eden 10y the way
the Beghborng bears the pous name Of Paradise
built dykes reclaim thousands OF acres of valuable soil
from the sea erected their forts aGd oiockhouscs and
called their home Acade IL WAS tn 1910, be-
ueve wien Annapolis, present In
teresting little seaport village NJ the
south extremity OF the valley founded under tho
name OF Port Royal. Thar wss In the Infancy of James
town and before the brheven OF ola Boston Here WIS
the fortress that the bun cd sea-dog Sir william Phipps
captured from the French Ia 1900, aud which the Eng
ti.h had long termed the Hornets Nest" After It's
final surrender 10 the EBgsh 10 l7l0 tue settlement
was called Annapolis ia honor OF the refgning English
Sovereign Tue old French bockhouse standing among
the rims OF the old forttoatiou and which
had God the siege Of two centuries was shamefuly
removed last year. An interesting battlefield oil the
Seven Years War Bloody Creek, only two miles
from Bridget0wn.
There are remarkable features about this
valley in more ways than QUE The tides
In Minas Basin, winch washes iis Northern
extremity, are the highest IN the world And the
fertility OF the soil lie perhaps unsurpassed the world
over InGeed the valley Ia popularity called the Garden
Of Nova Scotia" from It's extreme productyeness such
pot oea and such grass Two hundred bushels OF the
former 70 the aud four tons Of the latter year after
vesr without fertilizers or rotation OF cropsl What farm
even In luxuriant New-JeseJ c1n excel thatt .
Al The north extremity OF the "Garden forty
miles away-are Grand Pre-, Mount Blomidon and the
MIras Basn immortaliZeG by LOUgfellOw 10 'Eyangc-
searchiug around for the grave or Evangelnel MI:
Samuel Longfeow, a brother or the poet, visited
Grand Pro q few weeks ago; though IL Ia said tne
moot himself the spot Inc view irom
Bl0mdOn can hardly be surpassed IN ma <nlceDcc rive
large counties under the range OF VISION therr
ye rivers empt wing Min4 visible at once AMI
te sea sf etching away fty miles more ID the north
the picture The view or the Promised lAhu
iseif from the Top u Nebo cofd hardly surpass IT,