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204 are other mines on the post-road between Lochaber and Sherbrooke, and all along the coast between Halifax and Goldboro. Tangier, 60 miles below the mouth of the St. Mary, was the scene of the first gold strike in Nova Scotia, some fifty years ago. While there are innmnerable deposits on this water-shed, comparatively few veins are deep or wide enough to make their separate operation profitable.

From Heatherton, 12 miles east of Antigonish, a stage departs on the arrival of the express for Guysboro, 24 miles distant, at the head of Chedabucto Bay. The pastoral shores of this out-of-the-way village have a history that dates from the Portuguese discoveries. Nicholas Denys created one of his colonies here. It was he who named the Strait of Fronsac for his patron, Cardinal Richelieu. The many negroes seen on village docks and tilling near-by fields are the progeny of slaves introduced from West Virginia in Revolutionary times by Colonel Molleson, who with other Loyalists came here in 1783 and was apportioned free tracts of land.

Guysboro is so nearly surrounded by water that farmers make schooner delivery of fresh lamb and vegetables, "roobub" and berries, and the thick cream that goes with them at thirty cents a quart jar-full.

The village hotel is an heirloom in the Grant