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This plateau, which is about eighty miles 
long, is known to the people of the locality 
as Cape North, although the Cape North of 
the maps is a bold headland that stands with 
its base in the sea at the extreme northern 
point of the plateau. 
Few people visit this very interesting pe- 
ninsula. It is not easy to visit, and its attrac- 
tions as a rule are unknown to the traveller. 
It is peopled by Scotch Highlanders, and al- 
though it is traversed by that highest achieve- 
ment of civilisation, the telegraph, it has not 
been " civilised " to any great extent. 
Steam-mills and manufactories in the busy 
world outside have won the people from grind- 
ing their own oats to buying ready-made oat- 
meal, and from spinning and weaving all of 
their own cloth to using more or less of the 
cheap stuffs sent to them from Halifax ; but 
on the whole they live very much as they 
did before steam and electricity metamor- 
phosed life for so much of the world. 
He who enters Cape Breton by way of Port 
Hawkesbury, across the Gut of Canso, will 
very likely be disappointed. He certainly 
will if he expects to step at once into a 
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