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Rh when trapped in a rocky trough. The drive consumes about half an hour from the centre of the town. Markland, across the Bar on Cape Fourchu, is surrounded by the swirl of Fundy, the ocean and the harbour, and is therefore a desirable place for a summer sojourn. The Milton Lakes are reached by carriage or tram. The road passes through pleasant villages overlooked by the Highlands. Further north, rocky Port Maitland faces both the Bay and the Atlantic from its position on the wind-beaten coast. When the hotel at this point is open, there is daily communication with Yarmouth by stage, a distance of 12 miles.

A drive of a dozen miles brings one to Chebogue Point, at the junction of the ocean and the firth of, the Chebogue River. Another delightful motorride includes the lovely lake country, the strawberry-beds, the ale-wife streams, the Indian encampments and Acadian villages about Tusket, due east of Yarmouth.

The Halifax and Southwestern line leaves Yarmouth from a diminutive station near the lower end of the town. A coast shattered by legions of bights and inlets and showered by a rain of islands extends from Acadia to the Scotch Argyles. The area north and south of the railway is composed of more water than land—probably there is not such a mosaic of lakes and bays to be seen elsewhere in the world.