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l THE STRANGERS' GUIDE A. STEPHEN & SON --TO -- Manufacturers and Dealer~ in First-Class BUCKLEY & ALLEN'S FURNITURE ENGLISH & AMERICAN BOOKSTORE. BookStationery andestablishment St Bedding and Woodenware, This old and well knownn ncipal business thoroughfare of OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. is on Granville Street 1e pn . Wood Bros. & Co.'s Dry Halifax o .. 124), Coulon's Omnibusses Goods a . · and south. The 101 & 103 BARRINGTONSTREET, CORNER PRINCE through Granville minutes walk fron1 Our Royal Elastic Edge Spring Hair Mattrase made to order. tnglish and Hotels,_ to fit any Bedstead is without doubt the cheapest and best the Waverley, Custom House Provmc1al - Bed ever manufactured. close to the Post IMPROVEMENT THE ORDER OF THE DAY I ings. CONSTANTLY IN STOCK : Maps and Travelling Guide s, . ) . PARLOR AND CHAMBER SUITS A Speoialty Views of the City (Stereoscopic ' . ) Visitors to the city should not fail to see Show Rooms, an Views of the fCCity /photographic), inspect our immensestnck of ftrst-cla•s Furniture even thou Views o ana 1 , they should not wish to make any purchases. ooks in every department of Lit~rature. Children's Books in great variety, . IRON Bedsteads Great BEDSTEADS, EnglishIron In B1' ble s Prayers and Church Service~, . S' and Fra.nklin Square L1bran es, Varlet,. e N • Our reputation as the cheapest First-class Furniture estab- Magazines and ewspaper.. , · S l Auto"rapbic Albums; Gold lishmeut in the Province we are bound to sustain. Photographic Albums, crap Books ; Card Case~, Goods carefully packed and shipped. Give us a call, Pens Holders; · Pu:ses all kinds . Blank and Memo 0 Ladies' and Gents'; Stationery, • .· Q 'Almanacks &c. A. STEPHEN& S Books; Writing Desks iar10., ' 101 & 103 BARRINGTON STREET, a memo. of the address : CoRNER Prince ST., • HALIFAX, No. 724 Granville Street. 3 WM. STAIRS SON & MORROW) Hardware Merchants, I CORN'ER OF GEORGE STREET & BEDFORD ROW, Have on hand and offer for sale a large stock of HARDWARE, consisting of GLASS, PAINTS, OILS, PUTTY~ Nails, Spikes, Builders' Hardware, Brushes: Carpenters' Tools, Shop Twines. PAD AND MORTISE LOCKS, SHOE BLACKINC. -ALSO- Iron, Tin, Copper, Lead, AND HEAVY GOODS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 4 5 C. C. MORTON, HALIFAX. 195 HOLLIS STREET, The natural situation of Halifax is exceedingly fine. The city, properly speaking, comprises the whole of I O pposi te t he :Frov-ince Eui:ld.i n g. a peninsula formed by the harbor, on the east, and by a river-like inlet from the harbor, called the North­ --DEALER IN ·w est Arm, on the south south-west. The harbor, after narrowing very much as we proceed northward, sud­ denly expands into Bedford Basin, which bo unds the peninsula on the north. This peninsula extends four BOOKS, STATIONERY and a half miles in extreme length-that is, from Point l;'leasant to the Basin. The width across the middle, and which is pretty nearly its average width is two AND PERIODICALS. miles. T he width of the isthmus, from the head of the North-West Arm to the nearest point on Bedford, Basin is about one mile and a half. The arm of the sea, from which branch off the inlets and expansions already NewYORK AND ~OSTON NEWSPAPERSRS mentioned, is called Chebucto Bay. Received daily. ENGLISH PAPERS weekly. Nature seems to have done ever.vthing that could be wished to make this peninsula of Halifax the site, of a magnificent city. The who le of the area al ready des­ VIEWS OF THE CITY, cribed is available fo r buil ding purposes, comfortable GUIDE AND MAP OF CITY, streets, parks, pleasure grnunds, &c., on a regular plan at a less cost than usually has to be incurred in the lay­ MORNING & EVENING PAPERS, ing out and building of a town. For a distance of ten FOR SALE_ miles, fo llowing the sinuousitiesof the shore, its borders, with the exception of about a quarter of a mile at Point Pleasant, where a shoal and a 1eclge make out seaward, are washed by what navigators call "good water." The 795 HOLLIS STREET. , (j 7 whole of that distance, with the exception nam ed, is avail able for wharves, piers, and quays, wi th suffi cient depth of water to admit vessels close in shore, and with LONGARD BROS., good "hol:ling ground'' in front. 2 1 3 Hollis Street" The more com pactly. built por lion of the city-the town proper - li es aloug the eastern side of this penin­ HALIFAX, N. S. ~ul a, and consequen tly on t he western shore of' the har­ bour. It is built, for the most part, on the slope of' a bill , the summ it of which is s ur 111 ounted by Fort George Machinists, Steam &Hot Water Engineers, or the Citadel. 'l'he best view of the town is when seen from the opposite, or Dartmouth, shore; but the pro­ COPPERSMITHS, PLUMBERS, ETC . spect from Citadel Hill is one which no visitor should fai l Mau ufacturers of all kinds of to see. We will suppose him there upon the ramparts, or outside the works, at an angle of one of thebastians BRASS AND COPPER WORK FOR ENGINEERS', Plum Clustering almost beneath his feet, and spreading out BERS' AND VESSELS' USE . more visibly on his either hand, n orth and south is the ALSO.- Machinery for Mills, Mines, Factories, etc. , ma de and fitted town. Beyond it lies what is often, and probably with up. truth called " t he finest harbor in t he world." Set in P ublic Buildings, Churches, l?:1ctories nnd Residences supplied with Steam and Hot Water Heating Apparatus. it, like a gem, is the green, mound~like George's Island, Hot Air Furnaces and Plumbing ]3'ixtures. crowned by Fort Charlotte. T hese waters-blue as ever the Mediterranean was- stretch away to t he right, - - IilIPORl'E R3 OF -- or south-west, laving for miles t he shores of McNab'sab's Island, with its fores t-clad hill s and breezv clowns; Cast and Wrought Iron Pipe and Fittings, gleaming through the dark pine tops of the ·luxuriant Pump s, Sheet Lead, Lead Pipe, &c., &c. Tower W oocls; mi rroriug the pretty village of Falkland, which seems to clamber up the steep hill side fro m the - SOLE PROPRIETORS AND MANUFACT URERS OF - lofty summit of which frowns York Redoubt; now playfull y rippling and n ow rolling in, curling and LONCAR D'S foaming waves, over P oint Pleasant ledges a ncl the more distant T hrum Cap shoal; until off Sam bro, about nine miles distant, it becomes one with t he broad PATENTIMPROV ED.HOT WATER BOILER Atlantic. On t he other hand to the nort,hward, this F or '\\'a1·1ning Building s. 9 sheet oi'water contracts in width forming what ·11·u Dartmouth lakes. Indeed, in whatever direction the .r ' ca 11 d THeNarrows the shores of which are beautifully eye is turned from the point of view we have seleciccl, variegated with groves, green .fields, aucl pretty cluster's it is met with a prospect of rare beauty. of houses. Pursuing the view still farther in tbat ·As favorite resorts for promenaders, the first place direction, we may catch a glimpse of Bedford Basin must be given to the Public Gardens and the adjoining over the shoulders of the hills which form the northern North Common, which have already been briefly describ­ part of th.~ peninsula. Turn to the rear or westward, ed. For many years past, it has been customary for a aand Halifax Common spreads out from the base of military band to play in these Gardens on Wednesday Citadel hill an expanse which is, every year, being and Saturday afternoons during the Summer and Au­ more extensively· planted and ot~erwise improved, and tumn, at which time they are usually visited by crowds will soon be a charnung public park. This-more of the elite of the city. They are also the favorite place properly .the ,North Common-comprises, together with for holding evening, open air concerts, which have been the Public Gardens, . an extent of about ninety acres. very popular in Halifax of late years. Of th1d area the Public Gardens com prise over fourteen The Tower Woocls, in the immediate vicinity of Point acres. They are kept in first rate order, contain ponds Pleasant, the extreme southern point of the city, is an­ aud foun tams, aud a croquet lawn, and, although com­ other favorite resort of the Haligonians, old and young-­ paratively new, are already a delightful public pro­ for those who go abroad in their carriages or on horse­ menade and a great boon to the citizens of Halifax. back, as well as for the pedestrians. This ground, com­ Beyond this Common there extends west, north and prising about one hundred and sixty acres, iR crown south a great and nearly level plateau, which will, doubt­ less, at no distant day, be the heart of the town as well land, retained as such, unc!er the control of the War Department, for defensive works-four forts and batter­ as of the city, of Halifax:. Already the work of build­ ies and a martello tower, from which last the woods have ing has .been vigorously commenced in that sect-10n of been named. About 1874 however, the Imperial Gov­ the peninsula The view in that direction is bound bv ernment conceded the occupation of these grounds to precipitous wooded hills, beyond the deep gulch, at the the citizens of Halifax, as a Public Park for which they bottom o, which the waters of the North-West Arm can­ were admirably adapted, being for tbe most part covered not be seen from this point of view.

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