64 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES splendid farm homes, good barns and silos. Our attention was drawn to the Creosote Plant, and soon we arrived at beautiful , an unspoiled beauty spot and play place of 1,000 acres, the finest natural park in eastern Canada. consists of heavily wooded upland, verdure-clad ravines and leafy dells with shimmering brooks and waterfalls. Its distinctive characteristic is a valley surrounded by hills of red sandstone, gradually contracting to a rocky gorge, less than one hundred feet wide, with precipitous sides of brown grit and shale, in some places reaching to a height of one hundred and fifty feet. Through the gorge flows the Lepper Brook, the outlet of the town reservoir, in the hills beyond. This brook in its passage through the narrowest section of the gorge, breaks into two falls. The first known as the Waddell Falls, is a series of feathery cascades. At the second called Joe Howe Falls, the waters pour over the rocks into a deep pool. The Fall is named in honour of a great Nova Scotian statesman, who delighted to visit the Park, and wrote and spoke in praise of it on many occasions. Among the many springs in the Park are the Brandy Spring, the Wishing Well and the Holy Well. The last named, walled with rocks and surmounted with concrete, into which the words "Holy Weir have been cut, has become widely known. It is a copy of the old Holy Well on , across the river from Truro, where French Acadian infants were christened in the long ago. There are a number of industrial establishments in Truro, and it also has large lumbering and farming in¬ terests. " and Cap Co., for Dad and His Lad," appealed to us as a very good advertisement. The fine residences of Truro, the well kept lawns and