INTRODUCTION. 



IT has pleased my fancy and suited my purpose to 

 locate the following chapters on the Molega Road. 

 To find it one must go to the northern district of 

 Queens County, Nova Scotia. It connects a small 

 gold-mining community with other villages. Only a 

 distance of six miles through barren and brush, and 

 meadow, past fringes of old woods, and swamps of 

 spruce and maple, over ledges, two brooks and a 

 river. A very commonplace stretch of new road, but 

 in passing over it several thousand times, in all seasons 

 and all weathers, it became more charming, more to 

 be seen, and learned, and admired. It would be a 

 pleasant employment for me to fill volumes with the 

 unwritten diaries of these journeys. However, I cele- 

 brate them with this little book, in the hope some 

 readers will become interested, and thereby life en- 

 larged and curiosity stimulated to know more of the 

 wonderful world so easily accessible to all dwellers in 

 the country, and that, too, without money and without 

 price. 



ROBERT R. McLEOD. 



BROOKFIELD, QUEENS COUNTY, N. S., 1899. 



