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Excerpt from Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada: Nova Scotia's Northern Ocean Port
A View of matchless beauty greets the eye, when standing on the higher ground above the busi ness section of the town and look ing eastward, north and south across the waters of the harbour and onward to the shores beyond. Terrace like the hillsides rise, and breaking through their vales of green, the winding East, Middle and West Rivers may be seen, which in their onward sweep from distant hills beyond, meet to form the harbour, which with the island at its mouth, has made a land lock ed sea where some five hundred vessels may be safely moored.
The country round about was originally inhabited by the Micmac Indians, a tribe of the powerful Algonquin nation. During the years while the French ruled in Canada, a number of settlements had been made in the County, which were, however, abandoned when the Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia in 1755.
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