Louisburg Harbour, Cape Breton, 1850. '...the once renowned harbour of Louisburg suggests itself as the locality [for a railway terminus]; it being situated in the important island of Cape Breton - the most eastern land and harbour of Nova Scotia [in Canada], and, consequently, the nearest by many leagues to the Continent of is scarcely possible to imagine one of easier and safer access. It is capacious, and very capable of containing an immense circular spot of rock in the foreground is called Wolfe's below this eminence, lining the shore, are the ru
Louisburg Harbour, Cape Breton, 1850. '...the once renowned harbour of Louisburg suggests itself as the locality [for a railway terminus]; it being situated in the important island of Cape Breton - the most eastern land and harbour of Nova Scotia [in Canada], and, consequently, the nearest by many leagues to the Continent of is scarcely possible to imagine one of easier and safer access. It is capacious, and very capable of containing an immense circular spot of rock in the foreground is called Wolfe's below this eminence, lining the shore, are the ruins of [the] fort and its two remaining towers, the eastern and western. The lighthouse is the building on the left distant headland. The harbour entrance is about 400 yards wide, and has a deep unobstructed channel, limited to this breadth by the three islands on the '. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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