Down North and Up Along 
solid blue expanse wherever they appeared. 
In short, never had we seen such a merry, 
berry-bedecked hillside. The bunchberries 
laughed in scarlet glee all down one side of it, 
while the cranberries did their best to outshine 
them in extensive patches here and there. 
Fair as it was under foot, there was in 
addition a splendid view from this breezy, 
berry-distracted hill-top. 
On one side shimmered the picturesque 
channel, with its bird-silvered Split, its Cape 
Sharp and the rest, while jewel-belted Blomi- 
don and Partridge Island guarded the entrance 
to the Basin. On the other side lay the shin- 
ing Basin and the Cumberland coast, with the 
uprising Five Islands, and nearer the Two 
Brothers, small but jewelled islands like the 
others, where one goes when in need of extra 
beautiful moss agates. Shining in the sunlight 
was Silver Crag, which is not jewelled and is 
only silver by courtesy of the sun, that causes 
its gypsum cliffs thus to shine forth. Far 
beyond is Economy Point, the other side of 
which Minas Basin grows narrow, and is called 
Cobequid Bay. 
The hill-top from which we get this most 
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