The frost even now opens up hidden seams of amethyst on Cape Blomidon each winter.
A little way down the main street from the Herbin museum-shop is the plot where beneath the apple-trees the town's ancestors lie—the Bishops, Lovelesses, Reeds, Ratchfords, Reids, Martins, Miners . . . Hic jacet Edward Dewolf who departed this life in 1796. Silvanus Miner was born in 1699 and died eighty-seven years later. His epitaph warns:
Death is a debt that is Nature's due
Which I have paid and so must you.
William Alline passed away in 1799, aged eighty-five. There are other Allines, few of them deceased before their seventy-fifth year. Their stones are traced with vines and conventionalised cherubs. One bids us
who pass this way
Stand still awhile, these lines survey—
but weeds and lichens long ago obscured what it was intended for us to read.
The drive by way of Kentville and Canning to Look-off and Cape Blomidon is remarkable for the interchanging views of water and land—views doubly beautiful because charged with tradition immemorial. Kentville, in a narrow green vale, is the seat of a Government Fruit Station and the headquarters of the only railway system in Acadia. If preferred, a shorter route may be taken to
