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excuse for being is the sea. All its pleasures and most of its industries are maritime. Its climate is tempered by ocean currents that refresh its gardens and verdure in summer and mitigate the winter cold experienced in other cities of the same latitude. Its geographical position has influenced Yarmouth's selection as the terminus of three lines of importance to those who tour the Provinces. Boston is but seventeen hours away by the "Boston and Yarmouth's" steamer schedule. The Dominion Atlantic trains leaving the wharf pursue one route to Halifax, the Halifax and Southwestern road offers quite another through the Atlantic coast towns of lower Nova Scotia.

This sea-port has an English flavour explained by its shipping, its ship-building and repairing, its colony of ship captains, and the hawthorne hedges that fence the lawns, green as England's. Its main thoroughfare is dreary as an English High Street, and about the wharves may be heard the