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sand of the beach. It bore 

 the inscription: "Pour la 

 paroisse de Niganiche j'ai 

 ete nominee par Jean Dec- 

 arette et par Francois Urail, 

 parrain et marraine, Le 

 Fosse Huet de St. Malo 

 m'a faite l'an 1729." 



On the west coast, north 

 from Cheticamp to Bay St. 

 Lawrence, the scenery is 

 fully as picturesque as that 

 of the eastern side, but un- 

 til very recently has been 

 less accessible to the tourist. 



There are ghost stories 

 and tales of witchcraft and 

 second-sight reminiscent of 

 the Outer Hebrides for 

 every rural locality. The 

 Old Nick is a very real per- 

 sonage indeed and frequents 

 lonely roads in various 

 guises, according to the 

 habits of the narrator and 

 the hour of the morning. 



A LAXD OF NICKNAMES 



Cape Breton is noted for 

 its nicknames. Not only 

 are they numerous, but in 

 the Highland communities 

 especially there is an apt- 

 ness about them that makes 

 them stick — sometimes for 

 generations. More striking, 

 however, than the existence 

 of the purely personal sort 

 of nickname that, after all. 

 is universal, is the preva- 

 lence in present-day Cape 

 Breton of the typical High- 

 land by-names and patro- 

 nymics that centuries ago 

 gave rise to the Sept names 

 of the great Scottish clans. 



The custom of identifying 

 families by their pedigrees 

 is as old as Celtic tradition. 



So. in Cape Breton today, 

 where there are whole com- 

 munities of Macneils, or 

 Macraes, or Macleans (in 

 one polling district of 227 

 names there are 103 Mac- 

 neils and only eighteen 



