Partridge Island 
extended of all views is so pleasant a place one 
loves to linger there and to come again and 
again. Its outlook is not so dramatic as the 
one on the steep cliff of Partridge Island, but 
it is more charming. For every-day living 
one prefers the merry bunchberries, the blue- 
berries, the cranberries, and the grass the 
colour of a sheep's back, to the terrifying cliff 
with its sombre surroundings of rock and dark- 
green fir-trees. 
The picturesque new red sandstone elevations 
with their overlying trap give to the west end 
of Minas Basin its chief attraction, but there is 
much to be said for the twisted and contorted 
carboniferous beds that predominate in Cum- 
berland County. They contain the valuable 
coal deposits that crop out at Springhill and 
abut upon the shore of Cumberland Basin, and 
they are the source whence come the grind- 
stones that gladden the farmers' hearts, but not 
the backs of their boys, all over the United 
States. 
At Joggins on Cumberland Basin the car- 
boniferous strata are broken off short, as North 
Mountain is on Minas ; and there can be studied, 
as almost nowhere else in the world, these 
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