Halifax 
people say it is one of the finest harbours in 
the whole world, and notwithstanding their 
interested statement one can easily believe it. 
Halifax has its Public Gardens within the 
town; and just outside is Point Pleasant Park, 
a large tract of land for the most part in a state 
of nature, and very charming nature, with its 
forest trees and outcropping rocks and its out- 
looks over land and water. At one point a 
little patch of Scotch heather is growing. How 
it came there we did not learn, whether by ac- 
cident or design, and how long it will remain 
we cannot predict, as visitors are allowed to 
gather it without restraint. 
Unfortunately, Halifax yields to the weak- 
ness of boasting of her public buildings ; and it 
is only after the " Government House," the 
" Parliament House," and the new freestone 
post-office have been fairly faced and found 
wanting according to non-provincial standards 
of beauty and magnificence, that the disappoint- 
ment in Halifax as a city is complete. 
There is a tradition to the effect that woollen 
and leather goods are very cheap and of un- 
usual excellence in this highly fortified town, 
but like other traditions this has but a slight 
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