deck, VVhycocomagh, Louisbourg, St. Peter's, 
     
     Mabou and Ingonish, quite comfortable quarters 
     
     ‘ a; may be found. In the Margaree, Middle River 
     
     V and North River districts, also, there are here 
     
     and there little inns where very pleasant 
     
     and comfortable days may be spent. 
     
    

    
     Whether seen on foot, or from 
     
     train, steamboat or carriage, there can 
     
     be no doubt that Cape Breton is one of 
     
     the most enjoyable spots on earth. 
     
     Gushing springs, dancing rills, plashing 
     
     brooks, cascading rivulets, m u sic a1 
     
     streams, murmuring rivers, everywhere. 
     
     What a wealth of graceful ferns; what gardens of wild- 
     
     flowers; what splendid trees and noble forests; what tranquil vales; 
     
     what majestic mountains! And the blue sea, the crested waves, 
     
     the milky foam, the fleecy clouds! Surely such scenes as these were 
     
     in Sir “’alter Scott's mind when he wrote his Highland Scene : 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Here eglantine embalmed the air, 
     
     Hawthorn and hazel mingled there; 
     
     The primrose pale, and violet flower, 
     
     Found in each cliff a narrow bower; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Aloft the ash and warrior oak 
     
    

    
     (‘ast anchor in the rifted rock, 
     
    

    
     And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung 
     
    

    
     His shatter’d trunk, and frequent flung, 
     
     Where seem’d the cliffs to meet on high, 
     
     His boughs athwart the narrow’d sky. 
     
     Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, 
     
     \Vhere glistening streamers waved and danced, 
     
     The wanderer's eye could barely View 
     
     The summer heaven's delicious blue; 
     
    

    
     So wondrous wild, the whole might seem 
     
     The scenery of a fairy dream. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The early settlement of Cape Breton was entirely French. 
     
     At the time of the expulsion of the Acadians from the peninsular 
     
     part of Nova Scotia, many took refuge in the then L’Isle Royale, or 
     
    
   
   
    
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