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axicava samJs (ia oiu* section), and liiglicr slill. Fiou! (.he suimnit 

 we got a view of a vast and iiitere.stinjr horizon. 



Allow me to recall to you tiie scene i f that deli^litfnl day on the 

 siunmit, and to pliotograph, not the glorious country in sight, but 

 the Field Naturalists' Club, lor future refeienoe. A hundred people 

 and more, of scientific culture and occupation, resident at the Cajiital of 

 the Dominion including botanists, entomologists, geologists, palje.)nto- 

 logists and other sp3ciali.?ts of re[)utation and standing, ladies and 

 children with nets and collecting cxses are grouped on th ? summit of a 

 roche moulonnce and its adjacent slopes. Tliey have come in omnibuses 

 and buggies; and in ascending the mountain afoot they have learned each 

 a pleasant lesson from the lips of Nature. 3-lecall the freshness of 

 those living truths, of which the biological leaders spoke; the pages of 

 the first day of the creation which the geological leader told us how to 

 read with our own eyes. Recall the company the thoughtful men, the 

 bright women and children, and tell me whether or not, having seen 

 that picture, you believe the Capital of the Dominion, (now publishing 

 its monthly scientific periodical, The Ottawa Naturalist) has a 

 respectable constituency of scientific men and women today? Ottawa 

 is becoming more and more representative of the Dominion. Its 

 scientific constituency has been organized ; henceforth it has a more 

 important duty to perform. 



East, west and south the mountain oveilooks a plain, which we 

 saw in approaching Chelsea, was in large i)art a terrace, composed of 

 leda clay. At Chelsea this is 270 feet above the sea; 150 feet above 

 the Ottawa river, and 80 feet above the Ottawa Post Office. 



Between Chelsea and Kingsmere we rose over hills of sand. 

 About the level of Kingsmere a general upper level of the sand hills 

 skirts the mountain on the southern and eastern side, as you will recall, 

 and recognize by this sketch of the mountain as seen from Parliament 

 Hill, Ottawa City. [Sketch on board drawn in the form of a .section 

 -of the clays, sands and gravels from the level of the Gatineau 

 river.] 



I made it my business to trace afoot the upper surface of the sand 

 liills, from Kingsmere to the south-eastern corner of the mountain, 



