86 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES the industry make enough during the three months to keep them all year. Lobsters are black when taken from the water, and red when cooked. The Lobster Canning Industry is one o£ the foremost in Yarmouth, and the Eel Grass Industry is becoming noteworthy. Eel grass is used in hospitals, etc., to make the rooms sound proof. The fishermen use it to bank their houses. The huts in the fishermen's settlements were novel to us. The fishermen do not talk a great deal, yet they are glad when strangers speak to them, and inquire about their methods of catching fish. All the traps bear some indi¬ vidual marks as a means of identification, and woe betide the fisherman, who attempts to steal his neighbour's haul. One cannot but feel that great justice glows behind their weather-beaten faces. Let no one say a word against their little coast villages, which they love with an abiding pas¬ sion. They are perfectly contented, and time means little else to them but an indication of the turn of the tide, or the going down and coming up of the sun and moon. From the fishermen's settlements, the drive to Milton Highlands, north of Yarmouth, matches the scenic beauty of Scotland ; the roads which wind around mist-capped hills, and the silver chain of lakes have a true Gaelic quality. The motor ride of a hundred miles 'mid scenes like these, made our blood tingle and whetted our appetites for the sumptuous dinner provided in the Curling Rink of Yarmouth by our gracious hostesses. After dinner speeches were given by Rev. C. W. Rob- bins, assistant to Rev. J. S. Durkee , D.D ., pastor of Ply¬ mouth Church ( Henry Ward Beecher 's Church), Brooklyn, N.Y., and others. Both of these ministers are natives of .