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A road that winds near the tower ascends to the hill-town of summer cottages called Jollimore Village.

Near the head of the Arm, 3 miles from the harbour, is Melville Military Prison, situated on an islet where seamen captured in wars between Great Britain and France, and Great Britain and the United States were first incarcerated. An ancient chronicler declares sharks were lured into these waters to discourage hopes of escape.

A little way west of the cove, German settlers established a community still called Dutch Village. A favourite drive lead's to it out Quinpool Road. Here lived two naturalists, one of whom, Titus Smith, was a nephew of the original Hawkeye in Last of the Mohicans, The other was Downs, a taxidermist, who was born in New Jersey in 1811 and later emigrated with his family to Halifax. In 1847, sixteen years before the Central Park Zoological Garden was opened to a wondering public. Downs' collection of birds and animals was installed in the midst of a hundred-acre park at Dutch Village. This was the parent zoo of America. Downs bred specimens for royalty, and, during his long career (he died in 1892) is said to have "stuffed eight hundred moose heads." A short drive across country from Dutch Village to Fairview brings one to "the shores, . ..