Canoeing on the St. John River

The following description of a canoe trip on the Nasllwaak is typical of hundreds of similar journeys that can be taken along the course recently traced, and indeed on any of the rivers and water— ways, great and small, with which the province is so liberally en~ dowed. As it is most convenient to make this particular excursion from Fredericton, that place is taken as the starting point from which the canoe puts out.

It is a bright morning, the air is playing in a gentle breeze, and the St.']ohn River gleams with many a dancing ripple as we take our way well up stream to drop down quietly with the current as we drink in the'glorious View on every hand. Higher up, where the banks become bolder, the lumbermen’s piers of stone, cribbed in with, timber,_and overgrown with young tree shoots and wild— flowers in profusion, line the centre of the stream like so many ornamental gardens.

V Yon shimmering surface in the distant valley, at the foot of a bold hill, is not a placid lake bathed in the beams of the early sun

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