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Title: Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: T. Addison Richards
Subjects: United States--Guidebooks Canada--Guidebooks
Publisher: D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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north side of the peninsula, withHalifax Harbor on the south ; the Mus-ket and the Clyde in the south-west ex-tremity of the Province, the Mersey,the Musquodoboit, and the St. Marys.Indeed, rivers pour their waters intoall the many bays and harbors whichso thickly stud the whole line of theseremarkable coasts. Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia,is upon the south coast of the peninsula,on the declivity of a hill, about 250 feethigh, rising from one of the finest har-bors on the continent. The streets aregenerally broad, and for the most partmacadamized. Viewed from the water,or from the opposite shore, the city isprepossessing and animated. In front,the town is lined with wharves, which,from the number of vessels constantlyloading and discharging, always exhibita spectacle of great commercial activity.Warehouses rise over the wharves, ortower aloft in different parts of thetown, and dwelling-houses and publicbuildings rear their heads over each NOVA SCOTIA. 51 Description of Halifax.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia. other, as they stretch along and up thesides of the hill. The spires of the dif-ferent churches, the building above thetown, in which the town-clock is fixed,a rotunda-built church, the signal-postson Citadel Hill, the different batteries,the variety of style in which the housesare built, some of which are paintedwhite, some blue, and some red; rowsof trees showing themselves in differentparts of the town; the ships mooredopposite the dockyard, with the estab-lishments and tall shears of the latter;the merchant vessels under sail, at an-chor, or along the wharves ; the woodedand rocky scenery of the background,with the islands and the small town ofDartmouth on the east shore—are allobjects most agreeable to see. Of the public buildings, the chief is ahandsome edifice of stone, called theProvince Building, 140 feet long by 70broad, and ornamented with a colon-nade of the Ionic order. It compriseschambers for the Council and Legisla-tive Assembly, the Supreme Cou

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