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, Aspy Bay and Bay St. Lawrence, or make weekly connection with Louisbourg and Arichat, continuing to Mulgrave and Hawkesbury.

The lake and coasting steamers afore-mentioned are moderately comfortable. Those which breast the open Atlantic and the Gulf of St. Lawrence are not recommended to travellers who suffer from sea-sickness. The meals on most of the boats are poor and on some are execrably bad.

The Reid–Newfoundland steamers which sail on alternate week-day evenings from North Sydney to Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland, 100 miles across Cabot Strait, are strong, handsome vessels, especially designed for this service.

The mail steamer, Halifax–St. Pierre, on the Miquelon Islands, calls at North Sydney during the summer.

From Sydney, 5 miles across the bay from North Sydney, a road branches to the new town of Louisbourg, which has succeeded the historic French city and fortress of that name.

A new line is being pushed to completion between Dartmouth (opposite Halifax) and Guysboro, along the northeast shore of Nova Scotia through a farm and timber country. Small coastal steamers, some of them only indifferently clean, ply between Halifax and Nova Scotia ports both northeast and southwest of the capital. Farquhar & Co. have two new boats connecting Halifax