186 On a Specimen of 



a smile. — In the same way I have endeavoured to show my grate- 

 ful appreciation of the kindness of the Canadian people, by apply- 

 ing the knowledge gained in the old country to the altered con- 

 ditions of the new, and shall be rejoiced indeed if what has been 

 written, strongly, it may be, but calmly and advisedly, should be 

 received, neither with indignation nor with smiles, but with a de- 

 termination to amend the laws of disease and death, by which the 

 inhabitants of Montreal have thus far been governed. Let the 

 Queen City of the North, that sits enthroned on the Royal Mount, 

 with for her footstool the River of Freedom, her breast adorned 

 with princely mansions, her jewels of colleges and cathedrals 

 her boast of commerce and of wealth, be clothed with the white 

 robe of Health, pure as her winter's snows, and crowned with, the 

 diadem of Life, bright as her summer's sun, so that her future 

 may fulfil the prediction of the Prophet, — 



" My people shall not labour in vain, 



" Nor bring forth children for early death. 



11 No longer shall there be an infant of days, 



" Nor an old man that hath, not fulfilled his time : 



" For he that dieth at a hundred years shall die a youth, 



" And the sinner dying at a hundred years shall be held accursed. 



M They shall not build, and another inhabit ; 



u They shall not plant, and another eat : 



" For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people ; 



" Yea, long shall they enjoy the works of their hands." 



Is. lxv. 20-23. 

 Boston, May 13, 1859. 



ARTICLE XIV. — On a specimen of Aboriginal Pottery in the 

 Museum of the Natural History Society of Montreal. 



(Read before the Natural History Society.) 



Among other treasures of this Society recently exposed to view 

 by the re-arrangement of the collection in the new building of the 

 Society, is a remarkably perfect earthen vessel of Indian work- 

 manship, presented by Mr. H. T. Goslin of Clarendon, Pontiac 

 county, through the Lord Bishop of Montreal ; and which, 

 but for the confusion incident to the removal of the Mu- 

 seum, would have been noticed in this journal some time since. 

 It was found, along with another of similar form and dimensions, 

 under a flat stone, in a rudely walled space prepared for the ves- 

 sels, which were placed mouth to mouth, and contained only a 



