54 '■ TRANSACTIONS. 1897-8, 



ago I picked up a torn newspaper. Kxamination showed it 

 to contain some verses of poetry that seemed, both from the 

 sentiment and the jingle, to be worthy of preservation. There 

 was no name, assumed or real, of author attached to the 

 poetry. I sent a copy to Beamish Murdock who embalmed 

 the verses in his history of Nova Scotia without having been 

 able to discover the author. I wrote to Angus Gidney, whose 

 long experience on the Press and whose literary taste would 

 likely enable him to throw light on the authorship, but neither 

 he nor Mr. Calneck, to whom I also applied, could give any 

 information, Lighthall mentions De Mill as probably the 

 author. But De Mill when I asked him could give no clue. 

 Rev. J. Campbell, who wrote a book on Yarmouth County, 

 1876, attributes it to *' our esteemed fellow-citizen " Richard 

 Huntingdon, with what degree of authority I know not. The 

 verses themselves run as follows :— 



The memory of the Redman 

 How can it pass away 

 While his names of music linger 

 On each mount and stream and bay ; 

 While Musquodoboif s waters 

 Roll sparkling to the main. 

 While falls the laughing sunbeam 

 On Chegogvi's fields of grain. 



While floats our Country's banner 

 On Chebiictd's glorious wave, 

 And the frowning cliffs of Scatarie 

 The trembling surges brave ; 

 While breezy Aspotogan 

 Lifts high its summit blue ; 

 And sparkles on its winding way 

 The gentle Sissiboo. 



While Escasoni^s fountains 

 Pour down their crystal tide ; 

 While InganisJi's mountains 

 Lift high their forms of pride ; 

 Or while on Maboii's river 

 The boatman plies his oar; 

 Or the billows burst in thunder 

 Qn Qhicaben's rock-girt shor^, 



