NOVA SCOTIA. 



jP^^^IXCE the summer of 1872 Xova Scotia has been con- 

 nected with Xew York by rail ; so that the journey 

 can now be made in thirty-six hours, via Bangor 

 and St. John. 

 From St. John as a starting-point, the tourist can 

 make a round trip by rail and steamboat through considera- 

 ble portions of the three Provinces of Xew Brunswick, Nova 

 Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island, for the insignificant sum 

 of $13. As this is the main thoroughfare of travel, from 

 which lines less recent and less expeditious diverge to points 

 which I shall specify, a few expUcit directions will be valua- 

 ble to strangers. 



The round trip, as usually chosen, is by steamboat from 

 St. John across the Bay of Fundy to Digby, Nova Scotia, 

 thirty-five miles, thence ten miles to Annapolis, a point of 

 historical interest, and thence by rail to Hahfax via Wind- 

 sor. A route more desirable for sight-seekers is by steamboat 

 from St. John up the entire length of the Bay of Fundy to 

 Windsor, and thence to Halifax — starting upon the mighty 

 wave of an inflowing tide, which rises at Windsor to the 

 height of sixty feet, passing the beetling promontories of 

 Capes Sharp and Split, whose bases are lashed by the foam of 

 the eddying currents, and thence through the beautiful Basin 

 of Minas into the Avon River and the pastoral country of 



