at the top, either a carving of hands or an open Bible. It would appear that the parties who bought the tombstones did their own installation as they do not have a base like the stones of today.

His work can be distinguished form others because a marble engraver, like a painter, usually marks his work in the lower corner. Unfortunately a coating of moss and the natural erosion of the marble which occurred over the years has made the mark hard to find.

A story entitled, "This was Marble Mountain" in a recent issue of Cape Breton's Magazine, tells about the rather exacting work of splitting and removing the slabs of marble from the mountainside and cutting and polishing them in the marble mill.

About this time lime was being shipped from this area of Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island so it is quite likely that each boatload would include a few marble slabs for Mr. Hale.

Mr. Hale died when only thirty-five years of age and after his death the marble works of Wilmot Valley closed.