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and tastefully kept village, containing two hotels and comfortable accommodation for travellers, situate about two hours' ride from Salisbury on the Salisbury and Harvey Railway, drives the distance from that village to the foot of the hill just mentioned, through a region seldom surpassed for natural beauty. The country here is rugged and hilly. To the right the eye rests upon hills rising many feet above the level of the sea while on the left rises and falls the flooding and ebbing tide of the Petitcodiac river. Between the river and the hills stretch broad marshes covered with a wealth of waving grass, the prolific source of wealth to the owners. It will presently be cut, and in the form of good merchantable hay, fill to overflowing the numer-ous barns, commodious though they may be, every-where visible. On the other bank of the river may be seen many thrifty farm-steads, rich fields of green grass or grain alternating with those upon which have been planted and where are now rapidly ripening the potatoes and other products of the farm.

Some three miles from Hillsboro the main or what is known as the Shore Read, is left, and a picturesque drive of four miles brings us to the lake. The approach to the hill on which in calm placidity lies the object of special interest, is over a green meadow, through which meanders a sluggish brook which halts lower down to turn a mill. On either hand rises a range of hills, which as before stated, may almost be dignified by the name of mountains. At the foot of one of these hills is a bridge of rude but picturesque design, crossing which the ascent is begun. From here, the road, which is dug out of the clay which forms the side of the mountain and partially paved with plaster, leads directly to the mouth of the cave or entrance to the lake before described. And here, at this altitude above the sea level, lies the lake, its bosom forever