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Rh made by steamer to Margaree Harbour, and to Port Hood and Mulgrave. As already indicated, the valley road from Margaree Harbour to Northeast P. O. keeps on to Baddeck (Eastern Harbour—Margaree Harbour, 18 m.—Northeast, 13 m.—Baddeck, 28 m.). Other points on the Bras d'Or Lakes are within driving distance of Inverness, Mabou and Port Hood.

If the distance between Inverness and Point Tupper be completed by rail, tourists to the Lakes will have a further choice of routes. The Richmond, leaving Mulgrave Wednesdays and Saturdays for St. Peter's and Grand Narrows, and the Weymouth from Hawkesbury on Thursdays to St. Peter's and Grand Narrows may be exchanged at the latter place for the local week-day steamer to Baddeck. The Richmond makes side-trips to Marble Mountain and East Bay on other days. The Weymouth continues from Grand Narrows to the Sydneys. The Marion, which has traversed the Little Bras d'Or for a generation, runs on a tri-weekly schedule between Whycocomagh, Baddeck and Sydney. Passengers arriving at Mulgrave, Point Tupper or Hawkesbury (see Note 3, this chapter) may thus reach Sydney by an all-water route, most of which is through the usually placid Bras d'Or Lakes and their tributaries. If direct connection is made, the trip, Mulgrave or Hawkesbury—St. Peter's—Baddeck—Sydney will consume two days and a night, unless, travelling by the Richmond, one has to lie over Sunday in St. Peter's.

The rail route to the Lakes and Sydney begins at Point Tupper and proceeds north via River Denys and Orangedale. (Pt. Tupper—Sydney, 91 m. Pt. Tupper—Orangedale, 29 m.).

Orangedale is the station for Whycocomagh, at the head of St. Patrick's Channel, 8 miles distant by road. Teams are hired at the depôt. Whycocomagh is connected with Baddeck by road and steamboat.

The Bras d'Or Lakes.

The most southerly shore of the mediterranean