Lanterna Rally

Author: Edwin Gilpin Jr

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-11

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780265872079

Excerpt from The Minerals of Nova Scotia In Nova Scotia alone does the miner occupy the position of a distinct class in the community. This is due primarily to its mineral wealth, which I have endeavoured to outline in the following pages, but is, perhaps, equally owing to its favoured position. Placed at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and overhanging the eastern coast of America, its position marks it out as a halting place in the highways of the sea, and, its numerous and deep harbors, permit the approach of vessels to within a few miles of every locality yielding mineral or agricultural wealth. This facility of access gave rise to an extensive exportation of coal, gypsum, grindstones, etc., to the United States many years ago, and since Confederation the trade of our mineral exportation is flowing into Quebec and other Dominion Provinces in a steadily increasing stream. The consequence of this is that our mining industries manifest a steady growth, and their future expansion will be cc-equal with that of the Dominion. The natural position of Nova Scotia indicates that she Should be the workshop of Canada; that here, more profitably than elsewhere in the Dominion, can sugar be refined, cotton be spun, and iron ores be smelted and worked into the thousand articles needed by the contractor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.