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with New Brunswick, and when winter navigation permits, the Stanley, one of the government ice-breakers, makes trips between here and CapeTormentine N.B. Summerside is lighted by electricity, and boasts of the largest and finest de- partmental store in the Lower Provinces. Its schools are excel— lent, and the hotels comfortable. Among the more important Villages are Alberton, Tignish, Kensington and Victoria, all of them growing trade centres. Alberton is at the western end of the county, and pos- sesses the only har- bour available on a long stretch of coast

“Night sinks on the sea." iCascumpec Bay.

Queen’s C0unty.——Queen‘s County occupies the centre of the Island, and is the largest of the royally-named trio, having an area of about 486,400 acres. It contains twenty- three lots, and is more diversified by hill and dale than either of the other counties. Hillsborough Bay, with its ramifica- tions, is its greatest estuary. The population of the county is 43664-

THE CITY OF CHARLOTTETOWN.——Charlottet0wn,the capital, and the third in size of the cities of the Lower Provinces, was founded by Morris and Deschamp in 1768, and was incorpor—