Partridge Island 
jewels, a broader belt in proportion to its 
size than even Blomidon wears, and its treas- 
ures are much more accessible, being indeed 
within easy reach of the hammer of the col- 
lector at low tide. 
Amethyst, agate, chalcedony, carnelian, jasper, 
and opal belong to Partridge Island, and it has 
besides crystals all its own, while of those it 
shares with Blomidon and the rocks back of 
Digby, some are here found in their finest forms. 
Partridge Island stands alone, a turret of 
crystals on a foreign shore, for the rock com- 
posing the coast back of it belongs to the 
lower carboniferous sandstones and shales. 
The great bed of trap which was expelled 
when Blomidon and all North Mountain 
received their gifts of jewelled belt and iron 
crown ends in isolated bluffs along this car- 
boniferous coast. What has become of the 
intervening portion, that lay where Minas 
Basin now gives hospitable entertainment to 
the fleeing tides of Fundy ? 
Partridge Island was one of Glooscap's re- 
sorts, — he crossing to it in his great stone 
canoe, though when he had long distances to 
go he called up a whale. 
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