Down North and Up Along 
from the prim and painted Digby type to make 
the village as attractive as it might be. Still, 
the houses here are, on the whole, better than 
any we have yet seen, and there is many a 
charming sketch to be found in this, the 
most famous spot in the Lower Provinces, or 
for that matter in all Canada, for nowhere else 
in British America have history and poetry 
combined in so wonderful a manner to roman- 
ticise a place. 
On a high hill at the edge of the village is 
a comfortable inn, once a charming old house 
with a quaint doorway, but now obscured and 
vulgarised by a new addition which has noth- 
ing to recommend it but its internal comfort 
and the unparalleled views from its many 
windows. 
From this hill-top the Cornwallis Valley is 
seen stretching into the far distance, a vision 
of beauty, as it lies with the changing light on 
its distant meadows and its salt marshes glow- 
ing with rich colour. For not all the marsh- 
land has been reclaimed ; there still are broad 
reaches of exquisite beauty, to delight the eye 
and tempt the farmer of the future to new 
reclamations. 
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