The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . rward, and perhaps wisely Halifax of 1784 had small accom-modation for such guests. That Country Harbour, whitherthey were bound, lies about one hun-dred miles eastward along the coastfrom Halifax. All the shoreline is asuccession of harbours, but this onestands among them without equal: adeep gash between hills; a mile ormore wide, and perhaps ten milesfrom harbour mouth to where the tide northerly gales of the season, and thecompany that looked up at that snow-clad slope must have known more
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . rward, and perhaps wisely Halifax of 1784 had small accom-modation for such guests. That Country Harbour, whitherthey were bound, lies about one hun-dred miles eastward along the coastfrom Halifax. All the shoreline is asuccession of harbours, but this onestands among them without equal: adeep gash between hills; a mile ormore wide, and perhaps ten milesfrom harbour mouth to where the tide northerly gales of the season, and thecompany that looked up at that snow-clad slope must have known morethan a little discouragement. Snowand desolation, desolation and snow!It was melancholy enough to look at,more melancholy to go into and byforce of muscle and courage makehomes. It is not hard to think, sure-ly, that they looked back, some ofthem at any rate, to Christmas daysspent riotously perhaps, yet merrily :kept with old-world pomp and circum-stances or with homely good cheer,certainly in care-free fashion andunder kindlier skies. Be that as itmay, they went on shore at last, and. DAKBV S POINT. NEAR HEltE 8T00U THE CAPTAIN^ HOUSE is lost; spacious and safe; such ahaven as those that elsewhere havesheltered half the worlds shipping,though scarce a keel furrows itswaters. The western shore runs farout forming one side of a wide the Kings Kangerscame, on Christmas Day, three miles up the harbour onthe eastern side a steep hill runsdown in a wooded slope to the watersedge, and at the foot of this, at theplace now called Nibletts Landing,they went on shore. But only one oftheir ships had arrived; the missingone, with their lumber, had beenblown off shore in one of the fierce in good time came the other trans-port; but the lumber that was fcohave built their shelt-er had beenswept overboard in the gale! A pro-blem now arose, one to them almostunsolvable; to make in this wilder-ness some protection from the wea-ther, whose quality they had alreadytested. S
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