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and barren, and, although they had built several dwelling 

 houses, they determined to abandon the place. While they 

 were making preparations for their departure a fire destroyed 

 everything they had. A King's ship was at once despatched 

 from Halifax with provisions, or they would have suffered 

 from hunger and exposure. Most of them gladly seized the 

 opportunity and removed to Chedabucto Bay at the eastern 

 end of the Province, where they joined a number of persons, 

 belonging to the civil department of the army and navy, who 

 left New York when the British forces evacuated it ; and as 

 they had nothing else to take they took the name and gave it 

 to the present Guysboro, leaving Port Mouton to rejoice in its 

 original French name given it i8o years before by De Monts 

 in 1604, because one of his few and precious sheep there 

 jumped overboard and was lost. The new name of Guys- 

 boro was manufactured from the Christian name of Sir Guy 

 Carleton, to do honor to the man to whom the British Author- 

 ities had committed the task of transporting from New York 

 the thirty or thirty-five thousand I^oyalists, Hessian soldiers 

 and others, servants and slaves, who, on the conclusion of the 

 war between Great Britain and her revolted colonies, resolved 

 to cast in their lot with the mother land, and whose experience 

 of Sir Guy's considerate mind and feeling heart had aroused in 

 them the strongest regard for him. 



These somewhat lengthy statements serve to show to 

 what extent, and for what reasons, our place-names have been 

 imported : some from the political relations that exist or 

 have existed between the two mother countries and ourselves ; 

 others from sentimental causes that do credit to the warm 

 hearts of the Canadian people, proving : — 



" How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow 

 Into the Arctic regions of our lives." 



Time would fail to tell of the authors, poets (Tennyson, 

 &c.) heroes of the mother-land* commemorated in our place- 

 names. 



•Oliver W. Holmes referring to the Mother Isle finely says :— 

 " One half her earth has walked the rest, 

 In poets, heroes, orators, sages," 



