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HALIFAX 
GO to Halifax ! is a command many 
have received, but few obeyed. To 
most of those thus apostrophised 
in early youth "Halifax" had no 
concrete existence, but was an undesirable and 
unlocatable place, to " go to " when one had 
been troublesome. 
Not to have gone to Halifax cannot be 
regarded as a serious deprivation, for the way 
there across the country is not enchanting, nor 
is the city itself uncommonly attractive. 
But if, being at Grand Pre, one does go to 
Halifax and on the way passes Windsor at low 
tide, he will be rewarded by beholding the 
ruddy bed of the Avon during the temporary 
absence of the river, that tidal stream having 
taken itself off and left the ships in its channel 
to lean ingloriously against the wharves with 
their keels in the mud, waiting as best they may 
for the unnatural river to come back and restore 
them to their wonted dignity. It must be 
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