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172 boat, the keg is thrown overboard to avoid swamping the dory, and the giant mackerel makes off. If the harpoon has taken effect, he is towed into shore and there dissected, to be exported to the States either fresh or in cans.

Among the earliest of the pre-Loyalists who came to Nova Scotia was a band of emigrants from Cape Cod who arrived at Barrington in 1761. The church which they built four years later is said to be the oldest in Canada retaining its original materials and form.

A road leads down shore from Barrington station to the village whose name commemorates brave Charles La Tour. From a fort built on the edge of the bay he defended in 1627 the rights of France against his own father, who through bestowal of vast Acadian baronies by Sir William Alexander had been converted to the cause of England. Claude de St. Etienne la Tour and his wife, whom he had lately married at the court of the British sovereign, were permitted to live outside the fortifications, but never to enter them after the defeat administered by the son. Fort St. Louis was dismantled in 1755. Port La Tour may also be visited from Port Clyde at the head of Negro Harbour. Daily stages run from both Barrington and Port Clyde to the site of the fort.

Beyond the mouth of the Clyde River, the railway ascends the coast in sight of cliff and beach, gulf