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the making of paints. It is well equipped with 
educationul institutions, as Dalhousie University, 
the College of Technology, the Naval Academy, the 
Schools for the Blind and the Deaf, the Ladies’ 
College, and the Convent of the Sacred Heart. The 
city has also charming places of resort, as the 
Public Gardens, Point Pleasant Park, and, for those 
who take delight in the water, the North-West 
Arm 
Dartmouth (5000), about a mile from Halifax, 
across the harbour, has a fine situation, and is a 
beautiful residential town, especially in the hilly 
and lake section back a little from the harbour, It 
has various manufactures, as sugar-refining and 
making of rope and skates. The provincial Lunatic 
Asylum is in the neighbourhoo/l of the town. 
Lunenburg (3000) exports lumber and fish, and 
has considerable trade with the West Indies. 
Chester, a favourite resort of summer tourists, has 
a beautiful situation at the head of Mahone Bay. 
Bridgewater (1800) on the La Have, 13 miles from 
its mouth, exports lumber. The scenery along the 
river is very fine. New Germany manufactures 
wood pulp. La Have, near the mouth of the La 
Have River, exports lumber and fish. 
Liverpool (2000), at the mouth of the Mersey, is 
a fishing, shipbuilding, and trade centre. Milton, 
5 miles from Liverpool and connected with it by 
alectric tram, Caledonia, and Mill Village, manu- 
facture wood pulp. Port Medway is an import- 
ant port. The streams of Queen’s County furnish 
valuable "water - power. Lake Rossignol, at the 
head of the Mersey, is one of the largest lakes in 
the province. Both streams 7 lakes are favourite