While it is generally known that the distance from Sydney 
     
     to Liverpool is much less than that from New York to the British 
     
     port, it will come as a great surprise to most when they learn how 
     
     much closer Sydney is than New York to points in South America 
     
     and South Africa. For instance, Pernambuco, at the most easterly 
     
     projection of the South American continent, is nearer to Sydney than 
     
     New York by 24 miles. New Orleans, an extreme southern port of 
     
     the United States, is even more distant from the South American 
     
     point named by a stretch of over 575 miles; and, strange as it may 
     
     seem, the voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa is very 
     
     much shorter from Sydney than from United States ports. 
     
    

    
     Sydney River offers a broad and pleasant stream for boating. 
     
     The country by the lower part is flat, but becomes hilly and nicely 
     
     wooded as the upper waters are gained. For some distance inland 
     
     there are excellent runs for motor—boating, sailing, rowing and canoe- 
     
     ing. Crawley’s Creek is also a good boating place. There are 
     
     many pleasant drives to the lakes in the vicinity, as well as to many 
     
     pretty inlets on the coast, and by the inner waters of the harbor. 
     
     There is an excellent view from Victoria Park at the end of the pen— 
     
     insula. The district surrounding Sydney has a number of pleasant 
     
     features, and the city itself may be chosen as a centre for excursions 
     
     to Port Morien, the Mira River and Louisbourg. 
     
    

    
     North Sydney is the port from which the steamers of the 
     
     Reid-Newfoundland line leave for Port-auX-Basques, Newfoundland; 
     
     and from this port steamers may be taken for St. John’s, New- 
     
     foundland, as well as to Hawkesbury, Halifax, Charlottetown, 
     
     Montreal, Quebec, St. Pierre and Miquelon. There is a good ferry 
     
     service between here and Sydney, local lines for points on the Bras 
     
     d’Or Lakes, and, in addition, there are steamers to northern points 
     
     along the eastern shore of Cape Breton. 
     
    

    
     Those who visit here from the great manufacturing and 
     
     mining centres of the United States will, of course, be familiar with 
     
     coal mining and steel plants; but many others who come from other 
     
     industrial centres will find it both interesting and instructive to 
     
     visit the works of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and 
     
     collieries, etc., in the neighborhood. The various industries of 
     
     this kind hereabouts will soon rival the giant industries of Pennsyl- 
     
     vania; and all interested in such industries should spend some days 
     
     in seeing the many novel sights they offer. Those who have never 
     
     seen a similar sight should by all means see a cast made at the Dom- 
     
     inion Steel Works. The coal industry is now an immense one. In 
     
    
   
   
    
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