The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-09-15
THREE WOMEN AwHEEL.

A Trip Through Nova Scotia and Cape
BretonAFrom Yarmouth Up Through
Annapolis Valley to Port Hawkes.
bury, Thence the Length of Cape
Breton Striking Experiences Inter
estingly Told.
x. d. H. writes to the Waterbury
American as follows:
The best way to see a country and Its
people is from a bicycle, and all riders
of the noble steed who want a delight
full outing, with fine and varied scene
ry, cool weather and interesting
glinpses of country life on a foreign
shore, should take a bicycle trip in
August through Nova Scotia and the
adjacent province of Cape Breton.
We started out, a party of four, but
soon after leaving Yarmouth our one
male escort pronounced us too slow"
and sped ON ahead leaving US then at
liberty to wheel leisurely to Metesham
for dinner, where we had fine run on
the hard, smooth beach, and Maitland
for the night. The second days run of
forty-two miles to Digby was through
a struggling but picturesque district
settled almost exclusively by French
people. We stopped for an extra
lunch at little house wherein was
born the first white man on that coast,
and here we saw in actual everyday
use spinning wheel.
The ride from Digby to Annapolis,
twisting In and out by the shore of the
beautiful Annapolis BASIN was sue
| cession of delightful coasts over fine
| hard roads. Leaving the water views
at Annapolis we proceeded through
rich fertile valley land to Kingsport on
Minas basin where we took little
| steamboat ferry of fifteen miles across
| the basin to Parsboro. 1t was beau
tiful moonlight night and our views of
| Cane Blomidon, which rises some fifty
| feet from the water, were exceptionally
fine 1t will give one an idea of the
great height of the tides in these wat
| ers to state that when we left the
| Kingsport wharf we We're obliged to
climb down very steep ladder on to
the upper deck of the steamer; then,
when we reached Parsboro the same
performance was repeated from the
| lower deck of the steamer down to the
| wharf From Parsboro, through Fire
| Islands and Bear river to Truro we
were treated to mountain scenery and
miniature canons of a most beautiful
nature. The post-road, the only road
connecting these towns, is worn to ruts
in some places several feet deep, but so
hard and rocky in the main that 1t
proved fine for cycling or driving as
the natives call it.
/ From Truro to New Glasgow and
along the fine shell road at the tiny
fishing village of Arisaig, where the
cliffs rise precipitously a hundred feet
or more from the shore of the Gulf OF
st. Lawrence, we sped on our way
through Antagonist, pronounced An
ti'g'nish, and other little towns to Port
Whelgrave, at the extreme northern
end of Nova Scotia. Here we were
ferried in a sail-boat across the Straits
of Gamer to Port Hawkesbury on Cape
Breton Island.
Cape Breton. called K'Brit'n by the
people, is more sparsely settled thar
Nova Scotia, and one can ride for hours
through little spruce and pine wood!
without seeing other signs of habita
ton than the numerous fiocks of sheer
and herds of browsing cattle Tit
people here are all Scotch and who'll
settlements of them speak only thu
Gaelic-"Gallic" as they call it, o.
, Garlic" as we also heard it called
The roads are mostly so poor on Cap
Breton that we did little wheeling
! there. but instead took trains ant
steamboats, to Baddeck, our objectiv
point. The attractions of that quain
little town are too numerous to be de
, scribed here. We sailed on the Bra
dor lakes. often pronounced Bras
Door, Whereabouts and our communi
cative skipper pointed out to us tn
fine residence of Professor Graham
Bell, of telephone fame, who owns a
immense estate, which he calls BE
Vrear" Gaelic for beautiful noun
r tain): the house of George Kennar
t and those of other noted Americans.
f From Baddeck We bicycled nearly tn