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250 them an opportunity to express his zeal for the Crown. Each new arrival was baptised George in honour of the reigning sovereign.

The tourist will not fail to see the canopied pulpit in the Greenock Church. The building itself was begun in 1817 and completed a few years later by a well-to-do captain who essayed to make it a monument worthy of the town and of his generosity. He ordered a carved oak tree to be embossed upon the face of the tower in memory of his native Greenock, or Green Oak, in Scotland. To the cabinet-maker who fashioned of mahogany and bird's-eye maple "the finest pulpit in the province" he gave a free hand. No nails were used in fitting the parts. Exquisite care was expended upon joints and panels, and the cost, according to St. Andrews' tradition, was twelve thousand dollars. The first minister of the church is buried in the adjoining yard. Besides performing his clerical duties he had time and disposition to found the "St. Andrews Friendly Society" to which all the town's best-born of a hundred years ago belonged. The members bound themselves to converse only "upon Religion, Morality, Law, Physics, Geography, History and the present or past state of nations." As this curriculum would keep their meeting-hours reasonably well occupied, they agreed, Scotchmen all, to make pause for no other refreshment than "spirits and water."

The Passamaquoddy Indians, a tribe peaceable