Acadia 
Four miles from Canning, on a commanding 
spur of North Mountain, is an open space 
called Look Off. This is one of the best 
points from which to view the dike-lands, and 
thither we went one fair day. 
North Mountain nowhere attains an alti- 
tude of more than six hundred feet, which 
scarcely entitles it to the name of mountain. 
Yet the view from Look Off is more impres- 
sive than many a scene beheld from a higher 
point. 
North Mountain rises abruptly from the 
plain, so that the wide vista of the Cornwallis 
Valley lay a vast, fair scene before us. We 
looked down upon the far-reaching dike-lands 
of the old Acadian farmers, the scene of the 
tragedy and romance of their lives, the fair 
meadows they had stolen bit by bit from the 
sea an imperishable memorial of their labors. 
Minas Basin, like the beautiful Annapolis 
Basin, is an inlet from the Bay of Fundy. It 
forms the northern boundary to the Cornwallis 
Valley ; and as the tides come in, higher even 
than those in the Annapolis Basin, they flood 
the low lands and race up the river channels 
for many miles. 
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