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their hands can find ; very beautiful as well as 
rare crystals often reward their search. 
There is one place particularly rich in the 
mineral deposits that fall from above, and its 
name, Amethyst Cove, sufficiently explains 
what is most eagerly sought for there. The 
best time to hunt for Blomidon's treasures is 
in the early summer, after the frosts of winter 
and the rains of spring have loosened and 
washed down the rocks above, and before the 
summer tourist has appeared in force to deplete 
the store, although at any time of year when 
the beach is accessible the seeker need not go 
away empty-handed. 
Perhaps no part of Blomidon's treasures has 
so great a fascination as the geodes. What 
fresher delight is given to mortals than to break 
a geode, a rough rounded stone, often with no 
beauty of form or colour, and discover within 
a central cavity lined with glowing crystals or 
entirely filled with clustering jewels ! 
No wonder Blomidon is said to have been 
the abode of Glooscap, the Hiawatha of the 
Micmac Indians, whose wigwams once stood on 
these shores and who peopled forest and head- 
land with supernatural beings of their own 
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