ired of being on board ship, though we have as clever a captain
as ever need to live.

"Friday, June 27. I got up this morning very early to look out. I
can see land on both sides of us. About ten o'clock we passed
Annapolis. The wind died away. Our people got their lines out to
catch cod fish. About half after five John Waterbury caught the
first.

"Saturday, June 28. Got up in the morning and found ourselves nigh
to land on both sides. At half after nine our Captain fired a gun
for a pilot and soon after ten a pilot came on board, and a
quarter after one our ship anchored off against Fort Howe in Saint
John's River. Our people went on shore and brought on board pea
vines with blossoms on them, gooseberries, spruce and grass, all
of which grow wild. They say this is to be our city. Our land is
five and twenty miles up the river. We are to have here only a
building, place 40 feet wide and an hundred feet back. Mr. Frost
has gone on shore in his whale boat to see how it looks. He
returns soon bringing a fine salmon."

"Sunday, June 29. This morning it looks very pleasant. I am just
going on shore with my children.... It is now afternoon and I have
been on shore. It is I think the roughest land I ever saw.... We
are all ordered to land tomorrow and not a shelter to go under."

Such is the simple story told by this good lady; the reader's
imagination can fill in the details. At the time of Mrs. Frost's
arrival she was a young matron of twenty-eight years. Her daughter,
Hannah, born on July 30th., is said to have been the second female
child born at Parrtown.

In the case of the June fleet, as of that which arrived in May, the
captains of many of the transports seem to have been remarkably
considerate for the welfare of their passengers. The "Bridgewater,"
staid at St. John more than a fortnight before she sailed on her
return voyage to New York, as we learn from the address presented to
her captain by the Loyalists who came in her.

"To Captain Adnet, Commander of the Transport Bridgewater.

"The Address of the Loyalists, that came in the Ship under your
command, from New-York to St. John's River, Nova-Scotia.

"Your humanity, and the kindness and attention you have shewn to
render as happy as possible each individual on board your ship,
during the passage, and till their disembarkation, has filled our
hearts with sentiments of the deepest gratitude, and mer