The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-02-05

spoken Of as preacher. Beside this
church il small pond, the only pond
on the islands, and supposed to have
connection with the sea. 1t is very
shallow. The scenery along this road is
very fine. 1t goes through the Kyber
pass. Hills clothed with evergreen ce-
dars to their SUBMITS Half a mile
from here is what is called the sand
hills Here can be seen the drifting
sand gradually increasing its deposits
and eyelating the island In one place
shey have covered up house, all but
the chimney. Just a little from this
is plateau of hardened drift sand grad
ually forming into rock Proves with
out doubt how portions Of the islands
were formed. Where they have made
cuttings through the hill, making roads,
one can see each layer Of sand as il
had been blown in from the sea in some
terrific storm in ages long ago. Some
are formed from the south, others from
the east, west and north, whichever way
the storm had come. Some places we
notice are twisted in every direction,
as you have seen q snow drift where
| little sheltered, the wind whirling the
snowfakes in all directions. Had been
the same with the sand during those
| terrible storms that made those islands.
The coral insect docs not work above
water; those violent storms had washed
their newly formed coral, which resem-
| bied sand, up in hills and formed the
| islands. This is mixed with innumerable
shells that mix with the coral sand and
solidiiies into the coral rock. There
| ia quite stretch of sandy beach here,
where this transformation can be seen
going on.
! IN going along the road we come to
| the Paget parish church, built in 1796-
the year in which the poet Burns died.
| We have now most REACHED Hamilton
after a long walk Of nearly twelve miles,
tired but very much pleased with what
| VIC had seen. This excursion was not
taken the same day that we visited
/ the navy yard. Have written IL the
same as ii it were made on the same
/ day. Took the Salt Kettle steam ferry
across the harbor, which saved us two
mile walk around the bend Of the har
/ Dor.
4 This ID two days after, and our legs
are sore yet.
1 January 25th we visited the govern
ment house; today the residence Of the
governor From here one commands a
fine view of the north shore from ST.
Georges TO ireland island. On looking
southwark, we have the city of Ham
ilton, Pembroke marsh and the waters
Of the Great sound, studded with islands
Of every size. while in the distance are
the hills Of Port Royal, with the light
house browning the summit Of the high
est point. The hill where the governors
house stands is named Mount Langton,
fine place with beautiful surroundings,
containing about 20 acres. This was
bought by the colony in 1914 from one
Joseph Stowe for S24 900 It is a plain
but substantial building; sent several
postal cards TO Barre OF IL. The gar
dens and lawn are full of tropical trees,
india rubber trees, bamboos, etc. Most
Of those trees were planted about is41
by Governor Reid. There are some very
large silk cotton trees in the garden,
which were planted by Governor Elliott
in 1850.
4 As we entered into the grounds, we
noticed two boards with inscriptions
thereon, SO wanted to see what was on
them. They stood at the foot cf two
trees, one planted BY Albert Victor,
and the other BY George Of Wales in
the year 1880, when on a cruise TO Ber-
mnda on il. ". S. Baechinite Both
trees are about the same size, growing
side By side. Name OF trees not given
Albert Victor is dead, and George is now
Prince OF Wales. OF present visiting in
India. When we get into place of
this find, ii is hard work TO get Mrs
/ i. and Grace away; they stay among
( the pretty flowers all the time. Think
they will get arrested some day for
trespassing. We returned to the hotel
b. way OF the harbor, where we saw
4 them unloading the steamer 0rinoco
from Halifax on her way TO Jamaica
( She calls here and delivers the mails and
I some Of her freight, then proceeds on
her way. She has a good many passen.
gers on board, going to the West Indies
/ She is compact kttle steamer, but not
nearly so large as the Beimudian. We
returned TO the hotel tired, not fully
recovered from our walk ia the light
house Have been busy writing this all
evening, and it ia now IL O'Clock, SO viii
20 20 bed.
4 On Friday, Jan. Goth, went down to
the harhor in the morning, and saw them
making preparations Tor the arrival OF
/ the Beimudian, she having signalled at
! : a. IN. After breakfast went down to
I the wharf and saw her come into the
harbor and swing around into her BERTH
Th@ ean7e crew ~ hoeis We're out, shout.
ing names Of the hotels II is o sight.
she had on board one hundred and fifty
three passengers. The morning is beau
titul, seventy degrees IN the shade. One
thing / noticed was that when the Ber-