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Rh of the wedding-party described in Chapter Second as a typical Acadian festivity, and over a sandbar where the wheels meet the surf. The island, five miles long and a mile wide, rises in the centre to a wooded ridge. At the southern point is the original Robin staff-house, patterned after a Jersey Island mansion. Fireplaces are flanked by alcoves and cupboards, the ceilings are of wood, the side-boards are built into the wall. On the cliff are the drying flakes which belong now, as do all the 1800 acres of the island, to the nephews of Father Fiset, a French Canadian priest who ministered half his life to Cheticamp and who built the Cheticamp church, for which much of the labour and all of the stone were given by people of the district.

The new Robin store and the attractive house lately placed at the disposal of manager and bachelor clerks is in the centre of the village. Visitors will find the young men from Jersey always polite, and well versed in neighbourhood trips.

The salmon pools of the Little River are 8 miles distant by horse and on foot. A 6-mile drive into the country ends at the plaster-works where forty to fifty tons of gypsum are ground in a day. The only railway north of Inverness is the short track owned by the operating company.

Small farms cover all this region whose proprietors bear the names of the original families—Chiasson, Godet, Le Blanc, Au Coin, Desveaux,