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Mysterious and spooky at dawn and dusk, the Old Burying Ground , five-minutes' walk south of Grand Parade at Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road, looks something like the opening shot of David Lean's Great Expectations - though the over-blown memorial by the gates in honour of a brace of Canadian officers killed in the Crimean War does somewhat undermine the effect. Many of the tombstones are badly weathered, but enough inscriptions survive to give an insight into the lives (and early deaths) of the colonists and their offspring. The oldest tomb is that of a certain John Connor, who ran the first ferry service over to Dartmouth and died in 1754. Walking west up Spring Garden Road from the Burying Ground, it's about 800m to South Park Street, where a set of handsome iron gates serve as the main entrance into the city's Public Gardens (dawn-dusk; free). First planted in the 1870s, the gardens cover sixteen acres of meticulously maintained exotic shrubs, flower beds and trees set around ornamental statues, water fountains, ponds and a brightly painted bandstand. All together, the gardens are a pleasant interlude on the way to the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History , in the rear of the old grassy commonland at the back of the Citadel, at 1747 Summer St (June to mid-Oct Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm, Wed open till 8pm, Sun 1-5.30pm; mid-Oct to May Tues-Sat 9.30am-5pm, Wed till 8pm, Sun 1-5pm; $3). The best of the museum's wide-ranging exhibits are those depicting the region's marine and land-based wildlife, and there's a modest archeological section too.
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