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Rh the resort of stormy petrels which make their homes in the earth banks.

Aspotogan, highest point in this part of Nova Scotia, though but 500 feet in altitude, gives dignity to the broad boot of land that divides Mahone Bay from even lovelier St. Margaret's. Both rail and wagon-roads pass within sight of the islands of Chester Basin through East River and so to Hubbards, a distance of 16 miles.

The original Hubbard lived on Green Head, which, reaching into the bay, forms the cove opposite the Gainsborough Hotel. Hubbards, a country village by the sea, is a typical Nova Scotia resort. At a short distance are surf-charged beaches hugged by woods of juniper and pine. Less than a mile inland, forest aisles disclose a fresh water mere with cabins perched half hidden on the sloping shore. Water trails lead to other lakes. Mill, Vinegar, Quacks, where trouting is as good as anywhere in the province.

The proprietor of the well-conducted Gainsborough—a hotel more than ordinarily attractive for its hospitable cheer and excellent cuisine—has a genius for arranging exhilarating land and water trips for his guests. A buckboard journey of 33 miles follows the coast of the Aspotogan peninsula, going one way and returning another, and keeping in constant view the sea or arms of the sea. Mill Cove, on the south side of St. Margaret's Bay, is a quaint colony whose dialect and