Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-03-03
Bay of St AIMS. Cape Breton.

rem. probably foreshadowed the Amer
lean Revolution.
With the closing of this refuge OF
Atlantic privateers, ''marine insurance
ON Anglo-American vessels fell at
once from 30 - IL per cent! !" Sub
sequently the island was restored to
France, and again the fortunes of war
made it permanently British pos
session.
The giant fortress of Louisburg was
demolished in favor of the newly for
titled base at Halifax military ne
-cessity that is deplored by the visitor
of today.
And yet in all its desolation, one
thrills to the glory of It's past. Here
are the remains Of the Dauphin's gate;
yonder can be traced the bomb-proof
easements of the kings Bastion, and
on one Of these grassy mounds stood
the citadel, where fair ladies and gal
liant gentlemen of France graced the
grand ball on that fateful eve Of
Pepperells arrival in Gabarus Bay.
Not until 1884, when the island be-
came temporarily separate colony,
with its own governor, were grants OF
land to settlers permitted. To 1t In
the late years of the Eighteenth and
the opening of the Nineteenth CEN
fury came a great number of hardy
Scottish settlers. In this way the Is
land became "as Gaelic as the most
Gaelic part of Scotland" Though
there are considerable French Acadian
settlements. more or less cosmopol.
itan population in the vicinity OF ths
mining districts, and many descend
ants Of the old United Empire Loyal
list stock, the f. f. VS. of the prov
inces, Cape Breton is still predomi-
nantly Highland Scottish in its pop
ulation.
The finest scenery in the Maritime
provinces Is to be found in northern
Cape Breton and through the lovely
Bras dor Lake region of the interior.
Bras d'Or Lakes.
Most striking of the islands physical
features is this inland sea, known In
its two sections as the Great and Lit
tie Bras dor Lakes. Widening out
from it's two Atlantic entrances. 1t
extends in it's 400 square miles Of
area through the heart of the island
nearly a thousand miles of interior
coast-line bordering alL four counties
and forming in enchanting succession
wide harbors, island-dotted bays, and
deep fjord-like channels. A ship canal
at historic st. Peters, across the old
| Indian portage of Nicholas Deny's
| time, connects the lake waters with
the Strait Of Canso.
This inland waterway was of great
strategic values to the French as at a
| later period 1t was valuable means
of portatIon--indeed, the only
means of transportation at first-to
the Highland Scottish settlers. To-
day 1t affords easy access to the
markets of the Sydneys for the farm
ers of the Interior, no less than a
natural playground for the people of
| the Industrial centers.
The drive along the north shore
Of Cape Breton is surprisingly lovely.
Landward there are ever the hills,
near and remote, the green meadows
of farmlands Astounding in milk and
Celtic hospitality; seaward the At
lantic. and In the distance, sheer out
of the ocean, towers smoky"
Once seen, the view looking south
ward from Smoky is never forgotten.
Headland after headland in outline
reaching out to the eastward, plaster
cliffs dazzling white against the dis
tant blue, and, 1920 feet below, the
long roll Of the Atlantic.