48 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES On arrival in Moncton we found 50 cars awaiting us,— another evidence of the gracious hospitality of our Mari¬ time friends. On our three hour motor trip, we saw good farms on both sides of the , and for the first time since leaving home, numerous bank barns. Hay, oats and buckwheat are grown here, but very little barley and wheat, the season being too short for the latter. The long stretches of marsh lands where marsh hay is grown were particularly interesting to us. These great unfenced fields are dotted by many barns where the hay is stored, and hauled out in the winter. Cattle like the marsh hay because of its salty flavour. As we proceeded, the road wound past the oil and gas fields, whence Moncton obtains its natural gas. Then we passed through the village of , saw the Plaster Works and arrived at "The Rocks." Here on the Bay of Fundy, we saw one of the wonders of the world, for these giants stand out from the shore like sentinels. Trees grow on their summits, and along the shore are caves and tun¬ nels,—all nature's handiwork. Fifty feet above the base of the rocks, there is a fine picnic ground, surrounded by beeches and evergreens, and equipped with log cabins for tourists, and a pavilion. We returned to Moncton at noon in order to see the "Bore" in the . This is a most curious phenomenon, which attracts the attention of many tourists. One sees in the distance a silver-crested wave creeping over the dark brown flats, and soon at one's feet an irresis¬ tible and turbulent wall of water from three tp six feet in height, sweeping past, churning up the mud and stones in its fury. The Bore is caused by the inrushing tides of the Bay of Fundy, which rise to a height of 56 feet, forcing a great volume of water through the comparatively narrow neck of the . The sharp bend in the