178 
Pictou, which is on the northern shore of the Nowe Scotian 
From Pictou we went to North Sydney, near the northern end of 
Cape Breton Island, where we stayed about a week, and then 
proceeded by steamer to Port-aux-Basques, which is eave 
and. Thi 
though somewhat larger single specimens were obtained from the 
Bay of Fundy. 
e impression that one obtains of the physical and floral 
z 
tata, and Sanguisorba Canadensis, e Ericaceae and se 
also prominent. Among the former are not only several of our 
familiar heaths near the northern limit of their distribution, but 
there are also subarctic types near their southern limits, at least 
so far as the sea-level is concerned. 
The Newfoundland Railway, completed four years ago, runs 
near the western or ‘‘ French” 
shore, for 144 miles to the Bay of Talandt, and then turns east- 
ward, crossing the almost unsettled interior of the island a little 
