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Sept. 20. — At noon another light shock occurred at Point des 

 Monts. 



Oct. 10. — At 4.15 a.m. a slis^ht shock occurred at Montreal, 

 felt also at Lachine, St. Hilaire, Huntingdon (5 a.m.), and other 

 places in that vicinity. 



Nov. 27. — At 6.30 p.m. a severe shock occurred at Welland, 

 Allanburg, Port Colborne and other places along the Welland 

 Canal. 



Dec. 31. — About 10.05 p.m. a decided shock with rumbling 

 noise, was felt in Halifax, N. S., and other places along the rail- 

 road to Truro. It was felt generally in New Brunswick and 

 was also reported from Eastport (9.55), Rockland (10 p.m.), 

 and Bangor (9.30 p.m.) in Maine. 



Princeton, N. J., March 13, 1883. 



ON SOME RECENT ANALYSES OF SOILS. 



By J. Baker Edwards, Ph.D., F.C.S., Public Analyst. 

 (Read before the Natural History Society, February. 1883.) 



Having lately been called upon professionally to examine and 

 give an opinion on several samples of soil very difiFerent in origin, 

 in locality, and in composition, I thought it might be well to lay 

 my results before the Society. The first was from a delta of the 

 small river St. Pierre, running alongside of the ship canal be- 

 tween Lachine and the Tanneries. This soil is also evidently 

 a former bed of the River St. Lawrence, and is rendered com- 

 paratively valueless by the lar^e boulders left by the old ice cur- 

 rent in the valley which the Lachine railway now traverses. It 

 is now swampy land, having been banked out by the ship canal ; 

 but by the removal of these stones would become valuable market 

 garden land, draining into the River St. Pierre. It is full of 

 fresh water shells and of vegetable deposit, of a light and arable 

 character, with enough sand to make good drainage, and with 

 proper drainage into the river would prove a most fertile soil. 



This soil yielded upon analysis as follows : — 



Class 1. 



Three samples soil of between Lachine Canal and River St. 

 Pierre, gave . ♦ 



