HALIFAX . 
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miles, its banks rich in all sorts of charming foliage, 
where cluster numerous pretty villa residences of the 
wealthy families. 
The appearance of the city on first landing is not 
very prepossessing, but on reaching its centre, there 
are seen good broad streets, well built upon, with shops 
and stores of large dimensions, where all the luxuries 
and requirements of life are to be obtained. Amongst 
these, Granville and Hollis Streets take the pre- 
eminence, containing as they do the best of the shops, 
and most of the principal public buildings, such as 
the new Post Office, House of Assembly, Public 
Library, &c., besides club-houses and banks, all 
worthy of note for the beauty of their architecture ; 
in addition to which may be enumerated Govern- 
ment House, Dalhousie College, Wellington Barracks, 
Hospital, and Admiralty House, all fine buildings of 
their class. 
It is the seat of two Bishops, the Anglican Bishop 
of Nova Scotia, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop 
of Halifax. There are over thirty churches and 
chapels, some of them very handsome structures, 
including almost all important denominations ; and 
for charitable institutions, Halifax is said to out- 
number any other city of its size in the Provinces. 
Among them are asylums for insane, deaf and dumb, 
the blind, besides some twenty others, where all sorts 
and conditions of men and women can receive aid 
and assistance in time of need. 
