~ “I leave the town with its hundred noises, 
     
    

    
     ‘\ Its clatter and whir of wheel and steam, 
     
    

    
     K For woodland quiet and silvery voices, 
     
     With a camp of bark by a crystal stream. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Oh, peaceful and sweet are forest slumbers 
     
    

    
     On a fragrant couch with the stars above, 
     
     As the free soul marches to dulcet numbers 
     
     Through dreamland valleys of light and love." 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Enjoyable trips may be made from Halifax to the Minas 
     
     Basin, Grand Pré, and the Annapolis Valley; along the south shore 
     
     to St. Margaret's Bay, Chester, and Mahone Bay, Liverpool, Locke— 
     
     port and Shelburne, and to Lakes Rossignol, Keejim-Koojie, 
     
     Ponhook, etc. ‘ 
     
    

    
     No port of Canada offers the numerous water trips that may 
     
     be made from Halifax. Steamers leave here for St. John’s, 
     
     Newfoundland; St. Pierre-Miquelon, Magdalen Islands, Pictou 
     
     and Prince Edward Island, Gaspé peninsular points, Sydney, 
     
     Ingonish, Aspy Bay, Louisbourg, Glace Bay, Bras d’Or Lakes, Fort 
     
     Hood, Mabou and many other Cape Breton points; Guysboro, Mul- 
     
     grave and other ports in the Strait of Canso; Country Harbor, 
     
     Isaacs Harbor, Sherbrooke, Liscomb, Sonora, Jeddore, Ship Harbor, 
     
     Tangier, Sheet Harbor, and many places along the east shore; Lunen- 
     
     burg, Liverpool, Shelburne, Yarmouth on the south shore; St. John, 
     
     N.B.; and finally, not including transatlantic ports, there are trips 
     
     to Jamaica and Santiago: and to New York, Boston and Philadelphia. 
     
    

    
     Other particulars of Halifax and eastern shore localities will 
     
     be found in the chapter on “Where to Go.” The deep-sea fisheries 
     
     of the South. Shore are very large and important, and at Halifax 
     
     and elsewhere along the coast ample opportunities are found for 
     
     catching swordfish, leaping tuna, mackerel, codfish and haddock, 
     
     etc. Whaling was formerly carried .7 . 
     
     on by numerous vessels outfitting 
     
     and sailing from Halifax. A settle- i' 
     
     ment of Nantucket Whalers was 
     
     made in Dartmouth, but they after- 
     
     wards left; and the whaling industry 
     
     gradually died’out as a result of ,3 
     
     the great slaughter of those fish in 
     
     early days. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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