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centia Bay, on the southern coast, which was worked for a short 

 time by an American company, who carried away from it many 

 hundred tons of valuable ore. 



The people of Newfoundland are sanguine that gold will be 

 found in their island, which is quite possible; the geological char- 

 acter of the island, in some of its characteristics, might warrant 

 the belief, and induce some exertions to explore it more thoroughly. 



Any notice of Newfoundland would be imperfect without an 

 allusion to its fisheries, which furnish employment to its people, 

 and provide its staple export. The Arctic current which passes 

 swiftly and continuously along its eastern coast, rendering that 

 side cold, damp, and cheerless — the dense fogs occasioned by this 

 icy current meeting the lighter and warmer waters of the Grulf 

 stream — the long, deep, and narrow arms of the sea, which pene- 

 trate far into the land, in every part of the island, and re- 

 semble very closely the "fiords" of Norway and Sweden, in all 

 their principal features, affording the best and safest of harbours, 

 — together with the fish and fishing of Newfoundland — will fur- 

 nish ample materials for other papers hereafter. 



[While the above paper was in the hands of the printer, intel- 

 ligence reached us of the untimely decease of its able and accom- 

 plished author. Mr. Perley was a man eminent for his powers of 

 observation, and possessed a vast store of information on the 

 physical features and resources of the maritime provinces, which 

 he was ever ready to render useful to his countrymen. He is well 

 known in British America, and abroad, as the author of valuable 

 reports on the fisheries, on timber trees, on emigration, and other 

 subjects of public importance. The paper which we now publish 

 was read before the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 

 not long before his departure on what was destined to be his last 

 journey, and was kindly sent by the Council of the Society for 

 publication in the Naturalist. — Editors.] 



ARTICLE XXXIL—Eeview of Hooker's Outlines of the Bistri- 

 button of Arctic Plants.^ 

 In this paper Dr. Hooker presents a most valuable summary of 

 the Arctic Flora, entering in great detail into its wonderful geo- 

 graphical distribution, and very properly re-uniting in his lists 

 many varietal forms that have been promoted too hastily to the 



♦ Outlines of the Distribution of Arctic Plants. By J. D. HooKliK, 



