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Rh a hose and a water-tub, above which are a few feeble buckets suspended from rods.

Northward from Jordan Falls is another of those garlands of lakes which with their contiguous forests and barrens make of this country a virgin game preserve. Lockeport, on an island four miles from the railroad, has a fine bathing beach commanding a glorious view.

The rounding bay of Port Mouton received the barks of the earliest colonials. De Monts so christened it because in loading sheep here one struggled and fell overboard—disaster momentous enough in that time of random provisioning. De Monts had been given by Henry IV the trading rights of all Acadie but when he arrived in May, 1604, at the harbour which is next to Port Mouton on the north, he found Captain Rossignol from Havre de Grace "bartering with the savages against the edicts of the King." Whereupon, writes Lescarbot, his ship was seized, but the port was given his name. Haliburton declared the town of Liverpool, founded on this harbour in 1759 by Plymouth Rock stock was "the best built in Nova Scotia" having "an air of regularity and neatness." Many among the inhabitants grew rich from smuggling and privateering during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The oddly gabled house of Captain Sylvanus Cobb is the chief monument of this orderly town. That his title was not idly assumed is evidenced by the records