me all the advice and assistance
in their power. Many Places was talked of, but none was so
universally approved as the River St. Johns. It was therefore the
opinion of the Council, and all that wished well to the
establishment, that I should go across the country to Pisiquid
(Windsor), and take passage on board a Vessell that was going from
thence with Provisions for the Garrison of Fort Frederick, which I
accordingly did, and arrived the 18th of November. * *

"As soon as I arrived I procured a Boat and went up the River
above the falls as far as where the good land begins to make its
appearance; but an uncommon spell of cold weather had set in and
frozen over the small rivers leading into the Main River. * *

"Besides what I saw, which answered exactly with the account I had
of it before, I had the best information from the Indians and
Inhabitants settled 40 miles up the River and the Engineer of the
Fort, who had Just been up to take a plan of the River, so that I
was not at a loss one moment to fix on that spot for the
settlement."

Capt. Glasier spent about four days in examining the river. It will be
noticed he speaks of "an uncommon spell of cold weather;" nevertheless
the river was open for a good distance. This goes to show that the
winter season did not begin any earlier 140 years ago than it does
today.

Judging by the account of his journey from Fort Frederick to Halifax
Capt. Glasier was a good traveller. He says, "We breakfasted at the
Fort, dined at Annapolis and walked from thence to Halifax 5 days 145
miles in company with a brother of Lord Byron, who made the tour with
me to see the country."

Beamsley Glasier would have made a good immigration agent, for he
certainly describes the country in glowing colors, yet his description
of the valley of the St. John is in the main quite accurate and it is
exceedingly interesting to have a glimpse of that region in its
pristine state.

"The entrance of St. John's River," he writes, "forms like a Bay
between two points[78] about 3 leagues apart from thence it grows
narrower gradually up to the Falls, which is 200 yards broad. The
Falls, which has been such a Bugbare, is rather a narrow place in
the River than Falls, for at half tide it is as smooth as any
other place in the River, the tide then just beginning to make and
grows gradually stronger until high water, from that till two
hours ebb a Vessell of