igoo] • DoWLINGt-SuMMARY OF THE FlELD-WORK. IO7 



cessible to the tourist who had left his climbing irons in the frozen 

 north. 



I have mentioned the dislike of Floridians to work, and the 

 more one lives in the south, the more he feels the southern 

 langour creeping over him. It is said that a man becomes a 

 " regular Florida cracker" in seven years, but I should guess that 

 the average time required would be less. Coming north again, one 

 could feel the air, hour by-hour, becoming more invigorating and 

 bracing, and when finally Canada was reached it seemed only a 

 fitting end that the train should be run into a blizzard and incur 

 five hours' delay on a four hours' run, but even this could not 

 depress the spirits of one, who, after breathing the languid air of 

 the south for a few weeks, once more felt the tonic qualities of a 

 snow-laden atmosphere. 



A CONDENSED SUMMARY OF THE FIELD-WORK 

 ANNUALLY ACCOMPLISHED BY THE OFFICERS OF 

 THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA FROM ITS 

 COMMENCEMENT TO 1865. 



Bv D. B. DowLiNO. 



The reports published during the above term are not in any 

 sense annual reports and it is often difficult to follow the annual 

 wandering of the members of the staff, especially during the com- 

 pilation and publication of the report for 1863. The impression is 

 very general that owing to the reduced grant the staff were em- 

 ployed during this interval mostly in the office on the compilation. 

 The field-work was nevertheless carried on, although the results 

 were absorbed in the published volumes. As the reports previous 

 to 1863 are not available to many, this summary may be consid- 

 ered as a supplement to the preface of the latter volume. 



The information is drawn from the reports from 1843 to 1866, 

 the Life of Sir Wm. Logan by Prof. B. J. Harrington, and infor- 

 mation from Dr. Robert Bell. 



