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THE long term is over. Vacation has come. And whither now? "To New Brunswick," was the decision of the cabinet council, for the best of reasons, which our readers will not thank us for repeating. Having taken a general survey of our goods, and faithfully selected and packed whatever might be wanted during our absence, we set forth Saturday morning, August 9, 1862. The cars carried us to Portsmouth, N. H.; and the excellent yacht, Sibyl, down the harbor and over the open sea, twelve miles, to Appledore, the largest of the Isles of Shoals. After the fullest enjoyment of the sea-air, of a thunder storm on the ocean, of rowing among the islands, of their rock-scenery and remarkable geological formations, and of the various "Institutions of Appledore," — to borrow a phrase from our landlord, the sole owner and, with his family, sole resident of the island, we returned Monday evening to Portsmouth, satisfied that the wearied teacher, who needs the bracing air of the ocean, can find no better place along our coast for repairing his wasted energies, than the Isles of Shoals. For a description of the storm which we watched with so much pleasure, read, in the Atlantic Monthly for August last, the poem entitled "A Summer Day," written we are told, by a daughter of the island:

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But this was only one phase in the history of the storm. We did not wonder that such phenomena should make one poetical.

On Tuesday, we had two hours for enjoying the sights of Portland, so beautiful to look at, and yet more beautiful to look from. From Bramhall's Hill, we looked down upon a tented field, the snowy canvas contrasting finely with the fresh green of the meadow, and telling no tales of the horrors of war; and far away to Mount Washington and its giant-brethren, whose repose the tumults of men never disturb. From the observatory on Mount Joy, we took a bird's-eye view of the city, the harbor, and the islands in Casco Bay, equalling in number, according to old tradition, the days in the year. A little past five in the afternoon, the new steamboat "New England" was bearing us through the harbor and among the islands, on our way to St. John. Of the night that followed, the ladies of our party request that little should be said.

The next morning gave us fine views of the Maine coast, the pleasant circuit of Campobello, a short ramble about Eastport, and the beautiful panorama from its heights. The afternoon carried us along the New Brunswick shore, with careful watching of its varied scenery and geology, and up the noble harbor of St. John, to the floating wharf which attested the great height of its tides. Thursday was occupied in studying St. John and its environs. Among their most interesting features, were the argillaceous slate, with

almost perpendicular dip, on which the city is built, and through which many of the streets are actually cut, so that the strata can be counted through the whole distance from one crossing street to the next; the limestone formation immediately succeeding to this, and sometimes alternating with it, in the suburbs; the admirable views of sea and land, of city and wild wood, which we obtained from several points; the various evidences that we were in the dominions of Queen Victoria and in a land of sympathizers with the Southern rebels; the broad and deep river, with its remarkable tides, the large vessels afloat and on the stocks, the rafts of lumber in the water, and the piles of it upon the wharves; and, most of all, the far-famed "Falls of St. John." These falls are wholly tidal. A high barrier of rocks here disputed and doubtless long withstood the passage of the river to the ocean; but at length, after we know not what ages of struggle, the mighty stream burst through for itself a narrow pass with lofty, precipitous, and picturesque sides. But the sudden contraction of the great river at this point, like that of an insect between the two parts of its body, forbids that free flowing of the tides which is necessary to equalize the height of the water above and below. During the ebb in the harbor, the water above is kept by its rocky wall at a greater height, from which it plunges furiously down at the narrow outlet. At the flood, on the other hand, the harbor rises above the upper river, so that there is presented the yet more singular phenomenon of a cataract up stream, reminding one of the discussion in his boyhood, whether water could fall otherwise than down, and of the surprise with which he first heard that the Mississippi flows up hill. The falls are crossed by a suspension bridge, — a miniature of that at Niagara, - which, from its graceful delicacy of form, looks at a distance like a fairy work of gossamer, thrown across the abyss. But description cannot give the strange beauty of the scene, and of the views which we obtained of it from every side.

At five, Thursday afternoon, we started with a pleasant party of fellow-travellers, partly old and partly new friends, for an excursion in the steamboat Forest Queen up the grand and beautiful St. John, which, through much of its course, seemed more like an inland sea than a mere river. The lingering sunshine and the twilight sufficed for the boldest and grandest part of the scenery, and

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