16 RAILWAY FKOM HALIFAX TO WINDSOR. 



suited, therefore, to the growth of a larger number of 

 species of trees tlian are usually seen over much greater 

 distances In the Interior of the country. 



Above Sackvllle, which as yet is little more than an 



inn, with its necessary outbuildings — but which 

 doubtjbe the site of a future town — several small streams 

 unite in a main valley, and empty themselves into the 

 head of the lake. Up this valley, and across the penin- 

 sula, runs the road to Windsor aud the line of the pro- 

 jected railway between Halifax and that town. As a 

 means of facilitating and hastening the communication 

 between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the execution 

 of this raihvay would be of great benefit to both pro- 

 vinces. With good steamers on the Bay of Fundy, this 

 short line would reduce the distance iii time between 

 Halifax and St John to ten or twelve hours, and Avould 

 make the Cunard steamers greatly more useful to the 

 province of New Brunswick. And if, as is likely to be 

 the case, the transport of merchandise across the Atlantic 

 by steam is to be diminished in cost, and to become much 

 more common and extended, this railvray would at once 

 promote the extension of such a traffic. And while by this 

 traffic the steamers themselves would be aided, the com- 

 merce of New Brunswick would obtain the advantage of 

 a direct and easy weekly access to the European markets. 

 Were this railway constructed, w^e might hope, within a 

 brief period, to see merchant steamers plying between 

 Halifax only and the British ports on the Mersey, the 

 Clyde, and the Bay of Galway, laden with the lighter 

 articles of traffic which the merchants on either side can 

 mutually interchange. Thus, not only would the settle- 

 ment and more rapid improvement of the part of Nova 

 Scotia, through w^hich the railway is to run, be greatly 

 promoted, but the general commerce of the two provinces 

 also increased, and the extension and profit of Atlantic 

 steam communication hastened on. 



