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however, some really good and productive cleared farms 

 in the market. These vary in price from 500?. up to 

 1500Z., or from say $5 an acre up to $30 or $40. 



But if the surface is rough and rocky, there is vast 

 wealth hid underneath it. Nova Scotia is intended for a 

 manufacturing country one of the great workshops of the 

 world. Everything that nature can effect for this purpose 

 will be found here. Its position is most central. Two 

 steamers of equal speed, one sailing east from the great 

 lakes, the other west from Liverpool, would meet at Nova 

 Scotia, which lies just half-way between the great bread- 

 producing country of the world, and the great markets of 

 the world. The harbours are numerous and excellent ; 

 some of the best of them open to navigation all the 

 year round. Close to these harbours there is excellent 

 coal in inexhaustible quantities; iron also in abundance, 

 and many other minerals. The climate is bracing and 

 healthy ; the necessaries of life plentiful and moderate in 

 price. There is w,ater power on all sides; in fact, the 

 whole interior of the province is one network of lakes, 

 which form natural milldams and reservoirs, discharging 

 their waters by hundreds of rapid streams into the At- 

 lantic below. The forests of this and the neighbouring 

 provinces supply timber of many varieties, at less than 

 half the cost of timber in the Old World. Nature, in fact, 

 has done everything she can do, and man must do the rest. 

 I know no other part of the globe so well adapted by 

 nature as Nova Scotia to become a manufacturing centre. 



It is strange that English capitalists have made no effort 

 to utilize these natural advantages. By-and-by, no doubt, 

 as coal becomes scarcer and dearer at home, and labour 

 also more expensive, manufacturers will have to turn 



