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Rh that gold mining has been prosecuted in the province. Until recently only the surface cropping was reaped, but more efficient methods are now being introduced in easy-going Nova Scotia whose inhabitants are proverbially negligent of the land because so blessed in the harvest of the sea.

Bridgewater adorns the banks of "the largest and most beautiful river in Nova Scotia," the La Have, at whose ostiary some of the eminent events in early Acadian history took place. The fathers who planned the town benevolently left a part of the forest standing for the benefit of posterity. The streets are broad, well-paved and deeply shaded. The natural park which encloses the tombs of the dead is beautifully terraced by the hand of the Creator and contains a pond of drifting lilies. Many of the monuments in the silent wood bear names of German families who first arrived in Lunenburg, and later came to Bridgewater.

German thrift is exemplified in musty documents preserved in the small but very interesting museum housed in the building nearly opposite Clark's Hotel. The original collections were bequeathed by Judge des Brisay, a descendant of Cotton Mather and historian of Lunenburg County. Among the exhibits is an ancient tract on frugality which reads thus: "Sir you borrowed a bottle of me last summer and I want it and if you do not return it within ten days from this date I shall sue you for it without further notice." The bottle so