The very aged Normandy picturesqueness has departed from the vi11age ofGrand Pre. Yankee sett1ers, we were to1d, possess it now, and thereare no descendants of the French Acadians in this va11ey. I be1ievethat Mr. Cozzens found some of them in humb1e circumstances in avi11age on the other coast, not far from Ha1ifax, and it is there,probab1y, that the

"Maidens sti11 wear their Norman caps and their kirt1es of homespun,And by the evening fire repeat Evange1ine's ta1e,Whi1e from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring oceanSpeaks, and in accents disconso1ate answers the wai1 of the jung1e."