Excerpt from Place-Names of the Province of Nova ScotiaThe Indian Names of Canada.The memory of the Red Man, How can it pass away, While their names of music lingerOn each mount and stream and bay, While Musquodoboit's watersRoll sparkling to the main, While falls the laughing sunbeamOn Chegoggin's fields of grain, While floats our country's bannerO'er Chebucto's glorious wave, And frowning cliffs of ScatarieThe trampling surges brave, While breezy AspotoganLifts high its summit blue, And sparkles on its winding wayThe gentle Sissibou, While Eskasoni's fountainsPour down their crystal tide, While Ingonish's mountainsLift high their forms of pride, Or while on Mabou's riverThe boatman plies his oar, Or the billows burst in thunderOn Chickaben's rock-girt shore?The memory of the Red Man, It lingers like a spellOn many a storm-swept headland, On many a leafy dell, Where Tusket's thousand isletsLike emeralds stud the deep, Where Blomidon, a sentry grim.His endless watch doth keep.It dwells round Catalone's blue lake, Mid leafy forests hid, Round fair Descouse and the rushing tidesOf the turbid Pisiquid, And it lends, Chebogue, a touching graceTo thy softly flowing river, As we sadly think of the gentle raceThat has passed away forever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.