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THE TOURIST'S MARITIME PROVINCES

by carriage or automobile along the harbour shore to the outlet six miles away, and over the surf-bound cliffs of Fundy to the coast beyond Point Prim Light. A road continues 20 miles down Digby Neck to Centreville, Sandy Cove and Little River on St, Mary's Bay. Another motor-way passes along the east side of the Bay to Weymouth, and on through Clare "municipality" to Brazil Lake and Yarmouth.

Twice a day, Sunday excepted, Canadian Pacific steamers leave Digby for St. Jolin, 47 miles across the Bay of Fundy, where connection may be made for Boston, Fredericton, Moncton, Prince Edward Island and Montreal.
Digby—Weymouth, 21 miles.

Weymouth is mainly interesting to the tourist as a basic point for excursions on St. Mary's Bay, and through the country of the returned Acadians as far as Church Point. The town about the railway station is properly called Weymouth Bridge. Two miles distant is Weymouth Village at the mouth of the River Wey, which the Indians named Sissiboo, possibly a contraction of siks hibou, "six owls."

On the shady corner near the station is "Goodwin's," an inn patronised for its chicken dinners and generous country fare.

Sissiboo Falls, two miles above Weymouth Bridge, and the lakes about New Tusket are attractive goals for drives with horse or motor.

The little craft which conveys passengers, freight