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310 Arichat is the seat of Richmond County, Cape Breton. Court convenes in the white edifice on the hill near old St. John's. Though a majority of the island's 5000 inhabitants are of French ancestry, there are also a number of Irish families in the shire-town. Friendliness pervades the atmosphere of My Lady Isle to a degree unusual even in friendly Cape Breton.

From Mulgrave, the Richmond sails twice a week for St. Peter's, passes through the short artificial canal which separates Richmond County into two parts, and proceeds across the Bras d'Or to Grand Narrows. The Weymouth follows the same course, sailing from Hawkesbury, C. B., once a week for Grandique, St. Peter's, East Bay, Grand Narrows and North Sydney.

The Cape Breton Railway diverges to the east from Point Tupper and has its terminus at St. Peter's (31 m.), a tidy town whose ancestral site on Point Jerome was o'ershadowed by an important fortification in the time of Monsieur Denys (1636). In the charming bay is the island where the Micmacs hold the July pow-pow referred to under "Festivals."

Mulgrave is a call-port for still another little coaster that passes out the west orifice of the tidal channel which divides the mainland from the