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We soon learned that St. John, a city of hills, is built on a rocky peninsula. In the centre of the city, and near our hotel, we saw the Loyalist Burying Ground. Grave stones date from 1784, the year after St. John was founded by Loyalists. Farther on in the St. John Cemetery, we saw the marine and army lots, Where rest the remains of the sailors and soldiers. Then we went to Brookville to see the lime kiln. The lime manufactured here, for making white-wash, is exported in large quantities. In this locality there are huge quantities of natural rock.

Driving along the beautiful Kennebecasis River, we stopped at the Riverside Golf Club House, which over- looks the river. From this point one sees high purple hills, and glistening stretches of river. Rothesay, a charm- ing summer colony on the Kennebecasis, nine miles north- east of St. John, was the next stop. This is the home of Major-General the Hon. Hugh H. McLean, Lieutenant- Governor of New Brunswick, and His Honour’s beautiful home and entrancing grounds of “The Grove,” now Gov- ernment House, constitute one of the show places of Rothesay.

Passing along we noticed a wooden cross on the road- side, to mark the scene of an accident. We drove over nine miles of tar road, the only paved road in New Brunswick, all other roads being gravel. For a long distance there was dense bush on either side. After we left the tar road be- hind, we travelled over reddish gravel, which one sees everywhere in New Brunswick. Little lakes greeted us at frequent turns, and wild rose bushes growing along the roadside.

Soon we arrived at old Fort Howe, which Madame de la Tour held. It was delightful here to look down upon the magnificent harbour, strewn with ships at anchor. In the thin fog, when grey ghosts of vessels moved stealthily