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It was at length determined to give them their liberty, and to disband them in Nova Scotia, and to settle them there upon grants of land as British subjects and as free men. The Nova Scotians on learning their destination were alarmed. They could not bear the thought of having such a number of black persons among them, and particularly as these understood the use of arms.
"We want to go just south of Cape Sable," said he, placing his pencil point on that part of the chart. "How far south of it?" asked Harry Martyn. "Say twenty nautical miles." The first master dotted the point twenty miles south of Cape Sable, which is the southern point of Nova Scotia, and also the ship's position, with his pencil.
This letter will be found in the Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. II., pp. 135-145. Many of Mr. Graham's remarks savor of exaggeration and in reading the extract above this fact should not be lost sight of. Saturday, the 4th of November, was an unhappy day for the poor Acadians living at the little village of Grimrose the site of the modern village of Gagetown.
Mr. Samuel Slick is a native of the same parish, and received his education from Mr. Hopewell. I first became acquainted with him while travelling in Nova Scotia. He was then a manufacturer and vendor of wooden clocks. My first impression of him was by no means favourable. He forced himself most unceremoniously into my company and conversation. I was disposed to shake him off, but could not.
Look at the expression of Nova Scotia on this head, and see how it reflects upon the course pursued by the great American people in relation to the confederation of the adjoining Provinces.
We may add that the claim of the Indians to the lands in the vicinity of their village was early recognized by the Government of Nova Scotia, and when the first grant of a large tract of the surrounding country was made in 1765 to Thomas Falconer and sixty-six other land speculators, there was expressly reserved for the Indians "500 acres, including a church and burying ground at Aughpack, and four acres for a burying ground at St.
A public meeting was held at which the matter was considered in detail, and it was resolved by all present to remove with their families to Nova Scotia and settle together in some situation where they might enjoy the advantages of a church and school. Mr. Bates says that providence seemed to select for them the best ship and by far the best captain in the fleet.
They will be swamped by Canadians, a poor lot of people, a little eccentric at all times, and at the worst given to rebellion led by political tricksters of the type of his old enemy Hincks. A federation is cumbrous, and inferior to a legislative union, such as that of the British Isles. It will involve a raising of the low tariff of Nova Scotia, and ultimately protection.
But nowhere did the tidings find a warmer welcome than in the small detached forts scattered through the solitudes of Nova Scotia, where the military exiles, restless from inaction, listened with greedy ears for every word from the great world whence they were banished. So slow were their communications with it that the fall of Louisbourg was known in England before it had reached them, all.
In section this moulding may be compared to a large scotia divided into two cavettos by a torus. Its effect is not happy. The Assyrians had too little experience in stone-cutting to enable them to choose the most satisfactory proportions and profiles for mouldings. We may also point to the entablatures upon the small pavilions reproduced in our Figs. 41 and 42. Assyrian mouldings.
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