. From Blomidon to Smoky, and other papers [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. If 74 FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. ' --i swayed and yelled, until their kicking gave the desired start to her career. The launch was on August 15, and it was on the following morning, immediately after break- fast, that we resumed our journey by driving across the neck of land which leads from Parrs- boro to Parroboro Pier and Partridge Island. We wished to reach the shore of the Minas Channel at a point where we could look directly down the Bay of Fundy between Cape Split and Cape Sharp„ The mingling of pea and
. From Blomidon to Smoky, and other papers [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. If 74 FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. ' --i swayed and yelled, until their kicking gave the desired start to her career. The launch was on August 15, and it was on the following morning, immediately after break- fast, that we resumed our journey by driving across the neck of land which leads from Parrs- boro to Parroboro Pier and Partridge Island. We wished to reach the shore of the Minas Channel at a point where we could look directly down the Bay of Fundy between Cape Split and Cape Sharp„ The mingling of pea and land in this region affords endless temptation for sketch- ing. If it were a, part of the United States in- stead of being, nationally, neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, it would be one of the favorite resorts of our amateur artists and summer tour- ists. As matters stand, Blomidon on the one shore, with its forest-crowned palisades reaching down to Cape Split, and on the other Partridge Island, with sculptured rocks around which the tides of Fundy surge and eddy ; Cape Sharp, red- walled and spruce-capped ; and even Parrsboro itself, where one must eat and sleep, are places hard to reach promptly and comforta,bly. We had been forced to storm Parrsboro by night in a rain-soaked freight car. We escaped from it by a steamer so tiny and primitive in form that I wondered whether it had not in years past see^ service as a towboat in New York Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894. Boston; New York : Houghton Mifflin
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