208 LOUISBURG—-PAST AND PRESENT.—HONEYMAN. 
Harbour, not as a stronghold but as the terminus of the 
Intercolonial. Already it is the terminus of a Short Line, 
which has done good service in exposing geological for- 
mations, which were obscure at the time of my visit. This 
railway terminates in the harbour at “Careening Point.” Here 
coal can be shipped while Sydney Harbour is ice-locked. This 
is one advantage gained. If its grand claims should come to be 
conceded and its expectations realized, Louisburg may again 
become a place of note, not as a fortified, but as a commercial 
city, and its latter glary may yet exceed its former. 
