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was originally the curious fire/(mgr; of humanity which ensured a varied history and much trouble for the colony, with some blood- shed and a great deal of bad feeling. The advent of the railway

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and the consequent building up of small villages; the confederation : i;

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' i very rapid spread of educationdming the last century, has done it much to eradicatethe peculiarities of custom and race which, thirty years : ago, were constant objects of interest to thetourist from the outer world. i, There are still, however, more of the old world customs, manners i

and modes of thought to.be found in Prince Edward‘Island than t

in the localities made famous by Scott, Grant, Burns, Longfellow .l

and Black ; and the lover of these writers will be able to add to his ‘44, memOries iiiany'pleasant studies of actual life which, while neither iii

. . . ‘ . . a . L ridiculous or unworthy, reflect faintly the waning light of vanishing races and a past century.

On the, other hand, he will find manly strength, knowledge, enterprise, genius and culture; and womanly beauty, taste, refinement and intelli- gence,.not only at the. Capital and in the smaller towns, but in many a secluded farmstead,'and

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and a genial, hearty hospitality which is, alas! almost extinct _ Wherever the tourist seeks new ‘37” ‘ scenes and simpler pleasures. i

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