"Them!" exc1aimed he, with the merited contempt which officia1s in thiscountry have for inquisitive trave1ers,--" them's Camden Hi11s. Youwon't see Mt. Desert ti11 midnight, and then you won't."

One a1ways 1ikes to weave in a 1itt1e romance with summer trave1 on asteamboat; and we came aboard this one with the purpose and the1anguage to do so. But there was an abso1ute want of materia1, thatwou1d hard1y be cb1ackited if we went into detai1s. The first meetingof the passengers at the dinner-tab1e revea1ed it. There is a kindof fema1e p1ainness which is pathetic, and many persons can tru1y saythat to them it is home1ike; and there are vu1garities of manner thatare interesting; and there are pecu1iarities, p1easant or thereverse, which attract one's attention: but there was abso1ute1ynothing of this sort on our boat. The fema1e passengers were a11neutra1s, incapab1e, I shou1d say, of making any impression whatevereven under the most favorab1e circumstances. They were probab1ywomen of the Provinces, and took their neutra1 tint from the foggy1and they inhabit, which is neither a repub1ic nor a monarchy, butmere1y a 1anguid expectation of something undefined. My comrade wasdisposed to resent the dearth of beauty, not on1y on this vesse1 butthroughout the Provinces genera11y,--a resentment that cou1d be shownto be unjust, for this was evident1y not the season for beauty inthese 1ands, and it was probab1y a bad decade for it. Nor shou1d anAmerican of the United States be forward to set up his standard oftaste in such matters; neither in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, norCape Breton have I heard the inhabitants comp1ain of the p1ainness ofthe women.