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 NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 Tho average Amencan considers when lie reaches the State of 
 Maine that it is not worth wliile going any further. Thatheyond tliis 
 l)oint tlie smiles of nature must be fcAv indeed, that rocks must abound, 
 and the region of eternal snow and ice be close at hand. 
 
 So general is this oinnion that the warmest admirers of Nova Scotia 
 are our cousins from over the border, '•.iio find that as they go north 
 they are in a land growing fairer and more genial ; and year by year 
 they come in greater numbers to enjoy the summer, warm but not hot, 
 to fish and shoot, to idle away a pleasant holiday, to extend their 
 business connection, or to work gold mines. 
 
 As a resort for the summer tourist, the future of the Province is 
 now assured. The facilities of access by Yarmouth, St. John or 
 Halifax, l)y land and by sea, are now so improved that the journey 
 from Boston or New York has become an affair of hours. The wes- 
 tern section of Nova Scotia is traversed by a railway passing the 
 rugged shores of the Atlantic, the A^illey of Annapolis, and the Basin 
 of Minas ; a district thronged with the histories of the early combats 
 of the French and English, the extirpation of the French, and the 
 re-settlement by the New England and JJritish Pioneers ; and now 
 flourishing as an immense orchard and farming valley, the mountain 
 shore of the Bay of Fundy temi)ering the cold winds and prolonging 
 
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 the sunimoi' until tlio I'iylit poviod in roaclioil for tlie perfect viponiny; 
 of the fruit. 
 
 The Xorthern ilistricts of tlie Province abound in s(;onerv interest- 
 in*,' and ever varyiuf,' in character, from broad Avcll-tilhMl farms to 
 frownino- wood-chid hilltJ, and evcny wliere visible, now close at hand 
 and then in the distance, the waters of the St. Lawrence. 
 
 Crossing the Strait of Canso into the Island of Cape J»reton, land 
 and water arc; veritably wedded. 
 
 This Island surrounds, fast locrked, a i;reat salt water lake, Salter 
 that the ocean, stretching a dozen arms into the land, encircling hun" 
 dreds of islands, and retreating from sight in a myriad of turns. 
 Here many a tourist rests, enjoying a climate unsurpassed in the Con- 
 tinent; here the gales of the Atlantic, but a few miles distant, are not 
 felt; the sea mists melt before the warm sun and the gentle breeze. 
 
 All ( \:': 'he province are- excellent trout and salmon ri\"ers, free to 
 all, excipu in a f<.'w cases, where restriction, readily M'ilhdrawn, 
 ensures good s[iort. In the fall, snijjc, woodcock, and grouse aboun<l, 
 and the more ambitious sportsman has no diiTiculty in securing a 
 moose, carilxtu, or bear, in the Cai)e IJreton moniitains, or in tlic 
 unsettled districts of Xova Scotia. 
 
 As a farming country, Nova Scotia is famed for the regularity of 
 the seasons, and seldom does a crop fail. The yields of the field, 
 those of the Northern temperate zone, are good in quality, and would 
 be larger in amount were the principles of farming more generally 
 understood. 
 
 Xext to the farming interest comes luml)er, iish, and the mines. In 
 
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 GVery one of these industries there is an opening' for (;u[)ital and enter- 
 prise. There are water powers running iille, to turn tlie wlieeis of a 
 thousand mills, there is room for a dozen (lloucesters, with a dozen 
 fleets on the neighhoring hanks, with attendant steamers, improved 
 methods of drying; and tlie trade of tlie ^V«^st ln<lies ami the Medi. 
 t(n'ranean open to them. 
 
 In the mines, a shnv development has served one useful purpose, 
 the fact having heen v ell settled that the mineral resourees ai-e so 
 valuable that their develojnnent will become innuense when the hall 
 is once set rolling. 
 
 The coal lields scatter.'d over the l*nivinc(^ close to tide water, show 
 their destiny to he called sea home, and before many years will com- 
 })ete with English coal in Kuropc, all over the Atlantic, and the 
 nearer portion of tlu; United States. When to this is added tlu; 
 varied and wide spread beds of iron ore lyirg close to the coal holds, 
 and to tide water, it is evident that the combination of tliese will 
 shortly furnish cheap pig, etc., for half a continent. 
 
 Another resource, more fascinating than the i)rosaic iron ore and 
 dusty coal, may be mentioned. Along tlie Atlantic coast there stretches 
 a broad band of ancient rocks, broken and seamed by igneous intrusions. 
 Everywhere in this district arc veins of gold-bearing quartz, an<l seldom 
 has the gold mine" the good f artune to woo chance under more favour- 
 able conditions of climate, and facilities for suii[»lies, etc. The veins 
 have already yielded large amounts of gold, and steady returns are 
 secured from the low grade deposits. There; are undoubtedly large 
 tracts of auriferous ground not yet pros[)ecte(l or taken up, and as yet 
 the alluvial urounds are untoucliCil 
 
From those hricf glances over the Province it will ho evident that 
 it offers unusual induccnncnts to the apple grower, wood worker, the 
 miner and manufacturer, and the ffsherman of the ocean. Tiic peo- 
 ple of the province have lived their easy lives in a country healthy 
 and readily yielding substance ; hut they have not yet fully 
 awakened to its capahilities as a source of supply of food and manu- 
 factures to the surrounding territories. Progress has already been 
 made in this direction, but the tide must flow more full and rapid.