The Republican journal., 1898-07-21
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John bur the business portion, and that
is occupied by substantial brick and stone
structures, which replaced the dilapidat
ed wooden buildings destroyed in great
fire many years ago.
The Market slip at the foot of King
street used to be filled with the St. John
| wood-boa S, craft peculiar to this local
ity-schooner rugged, the foremost well
forward, no bowsprit, and a square stern
with the rudder outside-but at the time
of our visit not one was in the slip, al
though modernized type was seen in the
harbor. They now have bowsprits and
still readily distinguished from our small
coasters. Many Of them are engaged in
bringing kiln wood to Rockland, and
their course is through Fox Island
Thoroughfare. Another change in the
character of the shipping in port was
noted. Three fourths of the tonnage CON
sisted OF tramp steamers, whereas in ear
lier days the harbor was filled with wood
en- ships, loading with timber fJr British
ports.
The rise and fall of the tides here is
from 20 to so feet, and that causes a very
strong current. Ships that lay in the
stream to load are moored stem and
stern. The writer first visit to St John
was made many years ago, when a small
boy, in a schooner yacht of about 20 tons.
We beat into the harbor and let 60 our
anchor, and as it did not hold dropped a
ed to better anchorage on the Carleton
side and bad lively time getting our
anchors, the chains having fouled badly.
Going ashore one day for stroll about
the place we left our boat in a dock, and
on our return found the painter had been
stolen, but fortunately the oars were left
and the boat was aground. ST. John was
considered hard place in those days,
ard no doubt deserved its reputation; but
day it is no worse, probably, than cities
of its size elsewhere, and the American
tourist is welcomed and treated with
every courtesy.
After breakfast at ST. John a special
electric car took us to the wharf of the
Dominion Atlantic Railway Company.
where we boarded their steamer Prince
Rupert for trip across the Bay of Fundy
to Digby, Nova Scotia, a distance of IS
miles The run is made in , Il hours.
The Prince Rupert is a magnificent steel
sidewheel steamer, with guaranteed
speed Of Is 81 knots, OF nearly y miles
an hour. She has direct acting, triple
expansion, diagonal, surface condensing
engines of over 5000 horse power, is
lighted by electricity and equipped and
taste. The dreaded Bay Fundy on
this occasion was placid as an inland lake
and the run across was delightful. The
Nova Scotia shores forming the outer
: udI't Ol lHe AUudD O1lS bdSlu-Lne NOfCH
Mountain-are high, and the entrance
from the bay is through narrow strait
that cuts the range in twain. This used
to be called Digby Gut, but the name
does not figure in the tourist literature of
day 1.-The hills on the right are be-
tween 400 and 800 feet in height. and
1or4 Jnt1
Through the narrow channel the tide
PUSHES with velocity OF five knots an
hour. On the opposite side of the basin
rises the South Mountain long wooded
ridge from 500 to 800 feet high. Between
the North and South Mountain lies the
Annapolis valley, the greatest apple pro-
ducing region in the world, and this val
ley, with the CORVALLIS valley beyond, to
be described later, comprises the Garden
of Nova Scotia. While apples are the
great product of Annapolis other fruits
flourish also-pears, plums and cherries,
small fruits, etc. Digby. like our own
Hallowell, is noted for its cherries, which
were just coming in. 1.-The Annapolis
Basin stretches from the entrance east
ward about eighteen miles and is from
one to five miles wide. 1t is charming
body of water, bordered by really grand
features of scenery. The flourishing
town of Digby, which is largely engaged
in the fisheries and in ship building-the
home of the 'D:gby Chickens as the
Nova Scotia herring are popularity called
lies at the western extremity, and the
historic town of Annapolis Royal at the
eastern end.''
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