The Maritime provinces: a handbook for travellers . THE BASIN OF MINASTHE OLD ACADIAN LAND. THE LAND OF EVANGELINE. Route 22. 107 22. The Land of Evangeline. This beautiful aud dooply interosting- district is visited with the greatestease from the academic town of Wolfville {Central House ; Acadia ; Ameri-can), which is 127 M. from St. John and 03 M. from Halifax (by Route 18),on an arm of the Basin of Minas, and engaged in shipbuilding and farm-ing. It has 1500 inhabitants, 5 churches, Acadia Seminary (7 teachers and70 pupils), and the Horton Academy (4 teachers, 60 students). Acadia Colhrje
The Maritime provinces: a handbook for travellers . THE BASIN OF MINASTHE OLD ACADIAN LAND. THE LAND OF EVANGELINE. Route 22. 107 22. The Land of Evangeline. This beautiful aud dooply interosting- district is visited with the greatestease from the academic town of Wolfville {Central House ; Acadia ; Ameri-can), which is 127 M. from St. John and 03 M. from Halifax (by Route 18),on an arm of the Basin of Minas, and engaged in shipbuilding and farm-ing. It has 1500 inhabitants, 5 churches, Acadia Seminary (7 teachers and70 pupils), and the Horton Academy (4 teachers, 60 students). Acadia Colhrje is a Baptist institution, with 6 professors, 60 students, and 300alnnnii. The college buildings occupy a line situation on a hill which overlooks those meadows on the Basin of Minas which Mr. Long-fellow has made more sadly poetical than any other spot on the WesternContinent. The * view from the belfry of the college is the most beau-tiful in this vicinity, or even, perhaps, in the Maritime Provinces. Faracross the Cornwallis Valley to the N. is
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