Halifax 
humiliating to a ship to He in a river that goes 
out from under it twice a day. 
Besides possessing the bed of the inconstant 
Avon, Windsor is distinguished as the birth- 
place of Judge Thomas C. Haliburton, the 
humorist, historian, and man of affairs who was 
born in 1796 and became known to fame as 
" Sam Slick," the prototype of the conven- 
tional Yankee of caricature, of the stage, and 
now of popular fancy, who is amusing the world 
under the newer name of " Uncle Sam." 
Windsor also has the oldest college in Canada, 
King's College, which was opened in 1789. 
Outside of the town, on Minas Basin and 
on the shores of the St. Croix River, white 
gypsum crops out in sepulchral-looking cliffs. 
It is called " plaster " by the Nova Scotians, and 
is mined in large quantities and sent to the 
United States, where, having been calcined, it is 
sold as plaster of Paris, or merely ground fine 
as a fertiliser. 
The mineral called terra alba is found north 
of Windsor on Cobequid Bay. We did not 
see terra alba nor feel special interest in it 
until we discovered with what pride its pos- 
session was regarded by the people. Then we 
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