. The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton . TO REACH GRAND MANAN, CAMPOBELLO, LUBEC, ETC. A SUMMER CAMP. T TNRUFFLED Passamaquoddy Bay lies sheltered from the sea by a^ mighty chain of islands, all British territory, for this is the easternextremity of the United States. Its shores and islands bear numerous summer resorts, which possessenough of individuality to warrant a separate and detailed favorable times of tide, when it serves, to use a nautical phrase,the route of the International steamers into Passamaquod
. The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton . TO REACH GRAND MANAN, CAMPOBELLO, LUBEC, ETC. A SUMMER CAMP. T TNRUFFLED Passamaquoddy Bay lies sheltered from the sea by a^ mighty chain of islands, all British territory, for this is the easternextremity of the United States. Its shores and islands bear numerous summer resorts, which possessenough of individuality to warrant a separate and detailed favorable times of tide, when it serves, to use a nautical phrase,the route of the International steamers into Passamaquoddy is throughThe Narrows, formed by Lubec, a white, wooded town upon the leftand the long island of Campobello to the right. The entrance to thischannel is past the light at Quoddy Head, which marks the easternlimit of the United States of America. At other seasons of the tide one must circumnavigate Campobello,and approach the American town of Eastport through British magnificent sweep of Passamaquoddy Bay must be seen to bethoroughly appreciated. Its encircling shores form a horizon seventy-. 24 INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. five miles in circumference, all of which from some one of its manyelevations, as the Chamcook Mountains above St. Andrews, is broughtinto one view. It forms an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and partakes ofits high tides, while its breezy summited islands exclude its fogs. These phenomenal tides rise and fall twice daily in Passamaquoddy,measuring between thirty and forty feet, while to the eastward they gostill higher. The rivers which find the sea within the Bay of Fundy aresaid to part of the time run up hill, part down, as the tide swells them. There are few islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy after passingthrough the outer fringe which shelters its quiet waters. One of these,Ministers Island, which lies off the peninsula of St. Andrews, fitlyexemplifies these tides. Between this island and the mainland thereexists at the flood an exact half
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