~ THE GARDEN OF THE GULF. sUCH, as we have tried to describe in the preceding chapters, was originally the carious melange 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 and the consequent building up of small villages; the confederation of the Province into the Dominion, making it necessary for the people to work more together for recognition at Ottawa; and the very rapid spread of education during the last century, has done much to eradicate the peculiarities of custom and race which, thirty years ago, were constant objects of interest to the tourist from the outer world. There are still, however, more of the old world customs, manners and modes of thought to.be found in Prince Edward "Island than in the localities made famous by Scott, Grant, Burns, Longfellow and Black ; and the lover of these writers will be able to add to his memories many pleasant studies of actual life which, while neither 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 amid the rude fishing stations of the Gulf, the tourist will find everywhere a warmth of heart and a genial, hearty hospitality which is, alas! almost extinct wherever the tourist seeks new scenes and simpler pleasures.