seen in many a quaint parish of the distant motherland. It has 
     
     a graceful spire and pretty interior, with a beautiful stained glass 
     
     chancel window presented by the Episcopal Church in the United 
     
     States. 
     
    

    
     The substantial building so firmly seated on the southern 
     
     hills is the University of New Brunswick, the higher education 
     
     centre of the province. Here there is a geological museum; and 
     
     from the cupola of the building a wide View may be had of the river 
     
     and surrounding country. 
     
    

    
     The glory of Fredericton is the St. John River with its fine 
     
     scenery and numerous excursions up and down stream; nor must there 
     
     be forgotten the added pleasure of sailing over the tributary streams 
     
     such as the Nashwaak, the Nashwaaksis, the Keswick, the Oromocto, 
     
     the Jemseg, etc.; and of reaching Grand and VVashademoak Lakes, 
     
     and the numerous smaller lakes that are all about. 
     
    

    
     There are excursions up the river to Woodstock and the 
     
     numerous riverside places on the way. It is even possible to go all 
     
     the way to Grand Falls by water. Then the St. John River steamboats 
     
     go down the river daily to St. John and the towns and villages along 
     
     the banks of the river. 
     
    

    
     Nearly opposite Fredericton at the mouth of the Nashwaak 
     
     formerly stood an old French fort erected by Villebon. Acadian 
     
     refugees flocked to Ste. Anne at the time of the ” Expulsion,” and 
     
     sought refuge under the protection of the fort; but after the American 
     
     Revolutionary War the exiled American Loyalists drove away the 
     
     Aeadians t0 Madawaska, and settled themselves along the shore 
     
     in their place. 
     
    

    
     A world of pleasant exploration lies above the Grand Falls 
     
     in the upper waters of the St. John and its tributaries, but this region 
     
     while quite accessible from Fredericton, is somewhat remote for the 
     
     average summer visitor, and the Middle St. John from Grand Falls 
     
     to Fredericton is the district herein described. 
     
    

    
     Like many of the great rivers that have numerous tributaries 
     
     and increase in their descent almost to the proportions of inland 
     
     seas, the middle waters of the St. John, deep in places, have shallow 
     
     reaches and rapids where the current is very swift. Some distance 
     
     above Fredericton it becomes turbulent and foaming in many a seeth- 
     
     ing descent; but it is possible to take an outing over a considerable 
     
     distance, without portages, in a canoe with two men using poles. 
     
    

    
     A swift motor—canoe of light draft may easily make a two- 
     
     days’ journey up, giving four days on the St. John, with stops for 
     
    
   
   
    
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