Down North and Up Along 
Sydney, for we were not bound that way. 
Others might go on to prosperous Sydney 
and historical Louisburg ; but as for us, we 
preferred to step aboard the httle steamer 
ready to puff its way through the shining 
Bras d'Or waters to Baddeck. 
There is Httle tide in the Bras d'Or lakes. 
Their entrance does not receive the waters 
freely enough to cause them to pile up, as is 
the case in the Bay of Fundy ; on the con- 
trary, the force of the rising tide is dissipated 
before the water gets into this inland sea 
which lies in its land-bound basin, calm and 
peaceful. 
The Bras d'Or lakes are pleasant sheets 
of water with pretty wooded shores, though 
on the whole the scenery is not remarkable. 
It is very peaceful and pleasing, however, and 
there are many lovely coves and points of 
land along the shore. And there is always 
the invigorating northern air to fill one with 
its refreshing life. 
Baddeck lies on the shores of an inlet be- 
hind a point of land that separates it from 
the Little Bras d'Or Lake. We found it the 
simple sleepy hamlet we had hoped for. Its 
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