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242 craft implements, besides specimens of native minerals and animal life. A curator is in attendance and the admission is free.

The summits of the North End of the city are ascended by tramway, motor-car or sight-seeing wagons; some for whom an unremitting climb has no terrors go on foot down into the vale and up the steeps. Ruts in the highway show rock beneath a thin stratum of earth. Almost no trees are to be seen until Rockwood Park is reached, beyond the Public Gardens. Only horse-drawn vehicles may enter this five hundred-acre recreation ground of varied delights, executed by nature and but lightly touched by the guiding hand of man. Lily Lake verges on the Drive which continues into Mount Pleasant Avenue. Above the road, beautiful homes with vine-draped walls have as their daily meed one of the superb views of the province.

Directly above Navy Island and the wide turn of the harbour is the sheer eminence from which, in 1778, the first Fort Howe watched against New England privateers, who had already ravished Fort Frederick on the Carleton shore. The existing fortification is of later construction. From this elevation one sees on a day unmisted by fog the harbour, its thronged wharves and the Bay of Fundy in the foreground, and in the rear, the islands, coves and verdant promontories of the famed Kennebecasis.

A hill-side road descends to the river from