Down North and Up Along 
the result of " American " influence, for there 
is a large house on the point known as Red 
Head, across the water, and from a tall flag- 
staff near it floats the stars and stripes. It is 
the residence of Mr. Alexander G. Bell, the 
inventor of the Bell telephone ; and some two 
miles or more up the road to the north are 
two or three other houses from whose tall flag- 
staff's floats the emblem of our kind of freedom. 
In one lives Mr. George Kennan, not beloved 
by the Czar of Russia, and every summer a 
greater or less number of citizens from the 
United States find their way to the cool 
breezes of Baddeck. 
Yes, there is one other " improvement " at 
Baddeck, a brick custom-house and post-office 
that we at first mistook for the jail. 
There is a curious sense of disjointedness 
about Baddeck and its surroundings. The 
houses seem set around anywhere, and the Bras 
d'Or shares the general sense of confusion. 
The water-view ought to be beautiful, with 
points of land reaching into the lake, islands 
in the channel, and between the points of land 
a broad opening across the main body of water. 
But there is lacking that necessary something 
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