Aspy Bay 
hour or our Black Brook perchance ? — " and 
from thence successively to the harbour of 
Aspe, Cape North, the creek of St. Lawrence, 
and the cape of the same name. Cape North, 
or the mountain which forms it, is a peninsula 
joining to the island of Cape Breton by a very 
low neck of land. But none of these places 
are inhabited, or hardly at all frequented." 
So much for " Aspe " prior to 1760 ; and in 
truth it is not very densely inhabited yet, nor 
is it frequented to the extent its lagoons run- 
ning into the land from the sea and its soulful 
mountains deserve. 
In the early part of the century the evicted 
Scotch peasants seeking homes found the 
lovely and fertile valley, and the flourishing 
appearance of the settlement is testimonial 
enough to the character of the land, for where 
the land is good the people are always well- 
to-do and happy, if other people who do not 
draw the furrow or wield the sickle will let 
them alone. 
There is a delightful lounging-place on the 
water's edge a field or two from Zwicker's, a 
warm grassy bluff where one can lie in the 
sunshine with the same rat-tatting grasshoppers 
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