THE CHARM OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND 



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the: tower on the: summit of beinn bhreagh 



This outlook tower, unique in design and construction, was recently erected by Dr. 

 Alexander Graham Bell, at his summer home in Baddeck, Cape Breton. The tower reaches 

 a height of nearly eighty feet, and yet neither scaffolding nor derricks were employed in 

 building it. It is made of the tetrahedral cells invented by Dr. Bell. This considerable struc- 

 ture weighs less than five tons, and yet can carry a great weight. It is remarkable, not only 

 for its strength and lightness, as well as cheapness, but also for the fact that it was put 

 together in about ten days by several unskilled laborers, and that every part of the work was 

 done on the ground. No one was obliged to leave the ground until the tower stood erect 

 and completed. 



