500 tons may go up or down. I know of very
few Harbours in America that has not a barr or some other
impediment at the entrance so as to wait for the tide longer than
at St. Johns; here if you are obliged to wait you are in a good
harbour out of all danger of bad weather.

"On each side the falls the rocks are high and so continue about
four leagues, all Lime stone; then begins the finest Prospect in
the world, the Land becomes flat, not a stone or pebble for 60
miles * * the banks something higher than it is a little way in;
it runs level from six to twelve miles back and some places
farther, such land as I cannot describe. The New England People
[in Maugerville] have never plowed but harrowed in their grain,
such Grain of all kinds, such Hemp, Flax, &c, as was never seen."

[78] Mispeck Point on the east and Negro Head on the west.

Capt. Glasier's description of the interval lands in their virgin
state, untouched by the white man's axe, is particularly interesting.
It serves to explain why these lands were not over-run by forest fires
and were considered so desirable by the early settlers.

"The trees," he says, "are all extremely large and in general very
tall and chiefly hard wood;[79] no Spruce, Pine, Firr, &c. Neither
is there underwood of brush, you may drive a Cart and Oxen thro'
the trees. In short it looks like a Park as far as ever your eye
can carry you. The pine trees fit for large masts are farther back
and bordering on the small Rivers as I am told by the Indians.
These fellows are the most intelligent people I ever saw; near 400
live about 60 miles up the River, and seem to be well pleased at
our coming here, I saw all their Chiefs at the Fort. The land on
the N. E. side the River has been overflowed sometimes, but it
goes off immediately and leaves such a manure as you may
imagine--tho' it has not for several years past; the other side is
higher, the lands not so good in general. When I said not so Good
I would not be understood to mean that they are not good, for even
those are as good as any I ever saw in America, with the same kind
and quality of wood, but does not run back so far.

[79] A few giant elms of the primeval forest are yet to be found
on the bank of the St. John. The author not long since
examined the stump of a large elm that grew a few miles
below the town of Woodstock. It was four feet in