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atmospheric origin, due to peculiar electrical clischaro-es, 

 the other that they are internal in the earth, due, peihaps, 

 to shock of the internal liquid mass against the solid crust. 

 The following number of " Nature " contains notes which 

 suggest that the reports may accompany the formation of 

 faults or may result from earthquakes too slight to be 

 otherwise perceived, and later numbers of that Journal 

 contain numerous letters upon strange sounds heard in 

 different parts of the world, with various explanations. 



The discussion upon the subject by this So(nety on 

 December 3rd, 1895, has called out further information 

 showing that others besides myself have noticed these or 

 similar sounds in New Brunswick. The late Edward 

 Jack, a keen observer of things in nature, wrote me under 

 date December 13th, 1895, — "I have often noticed in 

 Passamaquoddy Bay when I Avas duck shooting, in the 

 early spring mornings, the noises of which you speak ; 

 they always seemed to come from the south side of the 

 Bay. They resembled more the resonance from the fall- 

 ing of some heavy body into the water than that of the 

 firing of a gun, such as is produced by a cake of ice 

 breaking away from a large sheet of it and toppling over 

 into the sea. These noises were heard b}" me only in very 

 calm spring mornings when there Avas no breath of air 

 there was nothing subterranean in them." Cap- 

 tain Charles Bishop of the schooner " Susie Prescott," has 

 told Mr. S. W. Kain that he lias heard these sounds forty 

 miles from land between Grand Manan, the Georges Banks 

 and Mount Desert Rock. They are reported also from 

 the Kennebecasis. Mr. Keith A. Barber, of Torryburn 

 Cove, wrote December 26th, 1895, to this Society, — "I 

 have heard sounds similar to those . . . on the Ken- 

 nebecasis in the warm days of summer. They seemed to 

 come from a southeasterly direction." Mr. Arthur Lordly, 



