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Rh bravely gilded Leta Schwartz or Annie Spindler. Owners' names are Zinck and Knickle, Wambach and Naas. The dean of the fishing establishments bears above its door a sign lettered "Zwicker and Co." The tenacity with which the Teutons have clung to their original grant is witnessed by the fact that elsewhere in Nova Scotia one rarely hears a German name.

A curiosity of the Lunenburg environs is the series of great caves hollowed by the surf on the far shore of the harbour. The Ovens are reached by motorboat and should be visited at high tide to gain the full impression of the sea's grinding. The Ovens' Head Diggings were discovered above sixty years ago when the waves brought down the crumbling shale. The ledges are presumed to reach into the sea because more gold is found in the sand after a severe storm. Individuals who wash the sands earn $1 to $1.50 a day. Other excursions are taken to Bachman's Beach, and to Heckman's Island at the entrance of the back harbour, 4 miles from Lunenburg. On "the rackets," or shoals, near-by, herds of seals make their home, but are not hunted.

The branch road, Lunenburg—Mahone Junction (7 m.) joins the main line, by which passengers continue northward, along Mahone Bay, largest of the numerous bights on this coast, to Chester, 19 m. from the junction.

Chester is to the Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia what Digby is to Fundy, though with more aspirations to fashion. For a number of years its