Acadia 
Much of the northern part of the CornwalHs 
Valley, which for many miles is mostly low- 
land, and was originally salt marsh, has been 
reclaimed from the sea, and in many places the 
farm-land still lies below high-water mark. 
The reclaimed land has not been the work 
of a moment nor of a generation. The valley 
we see to-day is not the valley the Acadians 
first looked upon, nor yet the valley from 
which they were finally expelled. Their suc- 
cessors have as steadily plied the diking spade 
as they did themselves, and the work of re- 
claiming new land is still going on wherever 
opportunity offers. The breaking of a dike 
means inundation and devastation to the land 
with a loss of two or three years' crops, as it 
takes the earth that long to recover from the 
taste of the salt water. 
Standing on Look Off we saw the general 
outlines of the valley as it is to-day, and saw, 
too, in a large way, the method of its emer- 
gence from the bottom of the sea. For winding 
here and there were gently rounded gullies 
down which now ran streams of trees and 
bushes, but which once were water-courses 
where the retreating tides drained back to 
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