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among the enlightened communities of this continent, and should be held 

 up to the emulation of all generations of Nova Scotians/ 



Vin. Shadows of the Past— Conclusion.— Other forms too, rise before 

 me as I peer into the vista of the past and I hear " their distant footsteps 

 echo through the corridors of time " : — William Garvie, cut off in the 

 prime of his intellect, a bright and fluent speaker and writer, whose 

 first public contributions were given to The Halifax Reporter, of which 1 

 was the young editor ; Stewart Campbell, once speaker of the assembly, 

 of stately presence and well-rounded sentences ; Dr. Crawley, the 

 revered president and practically founder of Acadia College, whose 

 erect, handsome figure was the heritage of a family of nature's gentle- 



JUDGE MARSHALL 



Aged 89. 



men, and whose richly endowed mind was allied to a most lovable 

 disposition ; Professor de Mille, called away before the full realization of 

 the literary promise of his early and successful literary efibrts, of which 

 the "Dodge Club Abroad" will be still best remembered; eccentric 

 Peter S. Hamilton, who made The Acadian Recorder a pohtical force 

 in old times, but died in poverty years after the successful consummation 

 of the federal union of Canada, of which he had been one of the 

 earliest and ablest advocates ; the eminent savant Dr. Abraham Gesner, 

 a descendant of a loyalist of 1783, who discovered kerosene oil and 

 methods of extracting valuable oils from coal and other bituminous sub- 



Ï The ladies of Halifax also presented to Lady Inglis a copj^ of the Bible, magni- 

 ficently bound in dark purple morocco, and decorated with the mayflower, the em- 

 blem of Nova S'jotia. 



