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Climate and Seasons.

It is well agreed that the summer climate of the Atlantic Provinces is nearly perfect, especially near the numerous gulfs and bays and on the ocean shore. Days that are hot in the United States are merely warm in the benign region of the Bras d'Or and the Bay of Fundy. Winds from the St. Lawrence Gulf cool miles of coast line on Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands and northern New Brunswick. From Yarmouth to Sydney, Atlantic breezes blow upon the face of Nova Scotia. Even inland towns whose thermometers sometimes register an uncomfortable degree in the day are fortunate in their refreshing nights. The average summer temperature of coast towns is 62°, the average maximum 80°. In the woods of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and on the water-edge fires are often grateful on mid-summer evenings, and by the ides of September the blazing log is welcomed on many a hearth at the close of a day that has been warm and sunny.

Winter is not so dry nor so cold in the provinces by the sea as in those which lie further west, and therefore not so inviting. In this part of the world spring gives way reluctantly to impatient summer. Even in June the atmosphere is often too raw for out-door pleasures. July, August,