'Toward Cape Breton 
formations, their rocks marvellous, and their 
minerals and metals precious or curious. Fine 
gold, coal, iron, and gypsum have made Nova 
Scotia famous the world over, and to these the 
queer rocky mineral-packed peninsula adds 
marketable amounts of silver, tin, zinc, copper, 
manganese, plumbago, pottery clay, terra alba, 
salt, granite, marble, slate, limestone, and grind- 
stones. Doubtless this is but a tithe of what 
she could do an she would, and of what she 
will render up in the future. 
Although we did not as tourists take pleas- 
ure in the scrubby country around Halifax, nor 
care for the commercial value of its products, 
we are persuaded that the geologist would find 
it of surpassing interest. 
Shubenacadie is one of the early stops after 
leaving Halifax. Naturally one looks forward 
with anticipation to meeting a place with such 
a name. But what is in a name ? Certainly 
nothing so far as the actual village of that dis- 
tinguished appellation is concerned. 
Shubenacadie ! "abounding in ground-nuts" 
— and also in Micmac Indians. The Shuben- 
acadie of our imaginations continued to abound 
in these things ; but Shubenacadie the actual, 
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