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watching and endeavouring to suppress it, we cannot 
obtain correct particulars. Large fires have been seen on 
the mountains of Nova Scotia, and from the volumes of 
smoke which have been sent over the Straits, we have 
reason to think, must have been productive of much 
damage. New Brunswick, especially in the neighbourhood 
of Miramichi, we hear, is also suffermg from the same 
calamity.”—J. L. H. 
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT HAwskE-PIPES.—In or about the 
year 1844, I was informed by Mr. George Somers Tucker, of 
Hamilton, that within the preceding two or three years, a 
native settler, while fishing within a short distance of the 
“Spanish Rock,” on the south shore, got up from the bottom, 
the leaden hawse-pipe of a vessel, which had evidently been 
a great number of years under water; and soon afterwards, 
the same party fished up the fellow to it, in the same place. 
One of these hawse-pipes was cut to pieces by the finder, 
and converted into sinkers for nets and lines; the other 
was purchased by Mr. Somers Tucker, and conveyed to 
Hamilton, where it was deposited in his grain and flour 
store. This hawse-pipe he promised I should see; observ- 
ing, that he intended to send it home to the British Museum 
as a curiosity. Search was accordingly made for the same, 
again and again, but all to no purpose, compelling its owner 
to conclude that it had been stolen from the store, and 
disposed of as old lead. 
I know not at what period of history leaden hawse-pipes 
were used by the ships of European nations, but if the above 
statement be correct—as I have every reason to believe it 
to be—there certainly appears to be ground for supposing 
that some unknown vessel was wrecked at this very spot 
