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Rh and farm wagons 5 miles across the long straight Bay of St. Mary adjusts its schedule according to the tide. Little River is the first landing made on Digby Neck. At this point Fundy is about a mile to the west across North Mountain. The steamer proceeds to Mink Cove and Sandy Cove further up the peninsula. The latter town is at the head of a small round basin. On the natural terrace of its embankment are contented white houses with pointed gables and, in their midst, square-steepled churches brooding their clustering grave-yards. From the bluff behind this idyll of a village an untrammelled prospect is revealed of the two bays, the one broad and often tumultuous, the other confined between tranquil parallel shores. Beaches fronting both bodies of salt water offer excellent bathing. Sandy Cove is in a double sense a seaside resort.

There are three houses here which give comfortable accommodation at a dollar a day, or less by the week.

North of Sandy Cove is Centreville on the wagon-road to Digby. From Sea-wall Hill, two miles beyond, there is another marine view worth a climb to see.

South of Sandy Cove and Little River the road continues to East Ferry, at the end of the Neck. The ferry-launch across Petit Passage to Tiverton on Long Island is summoned by ringing a bell. At the other extremity of the island strip is