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176 which show him commander of a vessel before Louisbourg in 1745, and of another which transported Acadians from Grand Pré. Lastly, he was Wolfe's pilot up the St. Lawrence in the memorable year, 1758.

Three miles up the Liverpool or Mersey River are "the falls," a term frequently applied in the Provinces to rapids or "white water," where canoes finish the journey from the Liverpool chain, Lake Kedgemakoogee and Lake Rossignol by way of Indian Gardens. The last-named lake is the largest sheet of fresh water in Nova Scotia, having an area of about a hundred square miles.

Medway is the station for Port Medway which spells tuna fishing to the rodsman. Salmon enter the Medway River from the Atlantic and go up stream to spawn. Fishermen are outfitted at Mill Village, 12 miles from the railroad.

A map issued by the Department of Mines shows both the shore and back country of this region well starred with yellow. There is a gold mine on the county line between Queens and Lunenburg, and several others close to the railroad. The amazing statement is made that one-half the total area of Nova Scotia is in gold-bearing rock. Gold was first discovered in the early sixties, a captain of artillery having come upon the quartz while moose-hunting in Halifax County. There are now about twenty-five mines in operation. Almost 1,000,000 ounces have been produced during the fifty years