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much more minutely described, with the causes of the courses of rivers, 
of shape of the coast line, of the hills and marshes, etc., and the tides— 
their causes and effects. 
Chapter V.—The Scenery of New Brunswick viewed in the light 
of its physical causes as well as esthetic results. There is one feature 
in which New Brunswick is singularly rich. and in which she undoubt- 
edly surpasses every other country of equal size in the world, and that 
is the number and beauty and usefulness of her rivers : she is pre-emin- 
ently “ The River Province.” But in addition to these with their fertile 
intervales, there are other types of scenery as well, bigh hills in the interior 
and bold cliffs at Grand Manan and along the Fundy coast, salt marshes 
in Westmoreland and great moors in Miscou and Shippegan. New 
Brunswick scenery is of a rugged, honest, untamed sort, not subdued and 
humanized as it is in most of Europe, outside of the Alps. 
Chapter VI—Economic Geology and Mineralogy. A discussion 
without prejudice of the occurrence of mineral deposits and what geology 
teaches of their probable future, including the demonstration of the small 
value of certain areas much advertised in boom literature. 
Chapter VIl.—Meteorology. Study of climate, absolute and com- 
parative ; effects of position, ocean currents, fogs, prevailing winds, ete. : 
local differences and peculiarities ; snowfall ; general character of summer 
and winter; effects of climatic conditions upon people ; possibilities in 
agriculture. 
Chapter VIII.—Botany. Relation of plants to soil and climate ; 
groups represented in the province ; number of species ; their character 
and special biological features ; occurrence of colonies from the North and 
South ; their distribution and its relation to past climatic conditions ; 
marine plants. Thanks to the labours of the Natural History Society of 
New Brunswick, exact data for these studies are being rapidly accumu- 
ited. Æsthetic aspects ; charm of the northern flora. Economics : the 
lumber trade. 
Chapter IX.—Zoology. Relation of animal life to climate and plant 
life ; groups represented in the province ; number of species, distribution, 
colonies, etc., as above for plants. Economic zoology ; influence of fur- 
bearing animals and of food-fishes upon history and prosperity of the 
province. 
Chapter X.—Summary Chapter on the Progress of the Seasons in 
the province. The awakening of plant and animal life and their course 
und relations through the seasons. Esthetic side of the march of 
nature; the supreme beauty of the New Brunswick seasons; their var- 
iety ; charm of bird notes and flowers; summer days and winter storms. 
The models of this subject are White and Jefferies in England, Thoreau 
in New England, and, better than all, Hudson in La Plata and Patagonia. 
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