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Thomas Chandler Haliburton –
Nova Scotia’s Waterways c1800
From
– An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia by T. C. Haliburton
Maps of Nova Scotia c1800
… the shores [of Nova Scotia] are everywhere
indented with harbours, rivers, coves and bays, in most places communicating with
the waters of the interior of the Country, scarcely any part of which is thirty
miles distant from navigation…
…The great inequality in the surface
of Nova-Scotia [Nova Scotia] is the cause of the existence of numerous lakes,
which are scattered in every direction. Some of them are of very great extent,
and in many places form almost a continued chain of water communication across
the province….From the head of the Shubenacadie river they almost reach the
harbor of Halifax, and afford such an extensive inland navigation, that a company
has been formed to complete the junction by means of a canal. Between Windsor
and the Atlantic, there is a similar connection in two different places- one between
the St. Croix and Margaret’s Bay, and the other between the head of the Avon and
Chester Bay…
Excerpt From –
An Historical
and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia
In two volumes. Illustrated by a map
of the province, and several engravings.
By Thomas C. Haliburton, Esq.
Barrister at Law and Member of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia
[originally]
Printed and Published by Joseph Howe, Halifax 1829
Edition consulted – Candiana
Reprint Series No. 51
Mika Publishing Belleville, Ontario 1973
Volume
2, pg 3-5
HRL SG ADULT 971.6 H172 h 1973
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