Sir James Edward Alexander on Haliburton

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Birthplace Overview T.C. Haliburton’s NS c1800 Overview NS 1st Historian Windsor King’s College Hurley on Long Pond TCH’s Long Pond Clifton Grove Waterways Windsor Gypsum Bluenose Why He Wrote Wise Saws Bibliography Works Online Sam Slick’s Words Related Pages Acadians Rhode Island to NS MacMechan Hist/Stat Chittick Hist/Stat TCH Explains Hist/Stat Alexander Meets TCH	Alexander on Haliburton Thomas Chandler Haliburton Sir James Edward Alexander – L’Acadie; Or, Seven Years Exploration in British North America – Vol II Published by Henry colburn 1849 pg 229-230 …and I visited Judge haliburton, the inimitable author of "Sam Slick, the Clockmaker" &c., living in his delightful country residence that rested on a bed of gypsum, overlooking the smiling village of Windsor and the Basin of Mines. Judge Haliburton is a powerfully made man, six feet high, with a robicund face, grey hair, and a most observing and humorous grey eye in his head. Our discourse was chiefly on the rich dyked lands in the neighbourhood, which had yielded abundant crops for one hundred years without manure.
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