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Pre," besides portions of four other counties of Nova Scotia, viz : — 

 Cumberland, Colchester, Hants and Annapolis. North Moun- 

 tain is well clad with a forest of conifers and hard wood trees J 

 and though 700 feet above the level of the Bay, has sufficient 

 soil on its flattened top to make good farming land. 



The Gaspereau Valley. 



Between " The Ridge " and the " South Mountain " flows 

 the Gaspereau river, which finds its source in the picturesque 

 and beautiful Gaspereau lake. This is a narrow but charming little 

 valley, very fertile, abounding in orchards on both sides. The 

 Duncan, Angus, Trenholm and Wall Brooks flowing from the 

 South Mountain fall into the Gaspereau, have furnished fine 

 exposures in the rocks of the Horton formation where Sir J.Wm. 

 Dawson, Sir Charles Lyell and the late Professor C. Frederick 

 Hartt obtained interesting series of fossil plants. In the district 

 around the head-waters of the Gaspereau Valley and in many 

 other places down to its mouth, are dense forests of spruce and 

 hemlock and hard wood trees. The Gaspereau river enters the 

 Basin of Minas near the mouth of the Avon River. 



Long Island. 



Over one mile in length and about half a mile across, situ- 

 ated four and a-half miles from Wolfville, is a favourite resort 

 for many kinds of birds. It is formed by a mass of red Triassic 

 sandstones, which have withstood the action of the denuding 

 atmospheric agencies in times past. These sandstones are now 

 being washed away rapidly and large masses frequently fall 

 down from the bluffs on the north-western extremity of the 

 Island and are carried away to sea by the powerful tides and 

 tidal action of the Basin which is connected with the Bay of 

 Fundy by a narrow but swift channel between Cape Split 

 King's County and Cape Sharp, below Parrsboro'.in Cumberland 

 County. 



