LIFE OF MOSES HENRY rERLEY. 6t 



there run a clearness of conception, a lucidity of expression, a 

 terseness of language, and a keen sense of the practical and im- 

 portant. With natural and material subjects ever before the 

 mind, with numerous and important duties ever pressing upon 

 him, it is surprising to find him engaged on works of fiction, 

 especially reconstructing many old Indian traditions from frag- 

 ments heard about their camp-rires. These were published in 

 some London reviews and conjprised the "(Jamp of the Owls," 

 "Forest Fairies of the Malicitss," "Ottowin and Lola," "The 

 White Spectre of the Weepemaw," and "The Indian Regatta." 



His better known works are the following: — Report on the 

 Condition of the Indian Tribes in New Brunswick. 



Report on the Fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Report on the Sea and River Fisheries of New Brunswick 

 within the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Report on the Fisheries of the Bay of Fundy. 



Catalogue of Fishes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



A handbook of Information for Emigrants to New Brunswick. 



Eighty years' Progress of British North America. 



Asa lecturer he ranked high and was much sought after, for 

 his addresses teemed with new and attractive information con- 

 cerning his native province — her history, woods, rivers, fisheries, 

 soils, mineral wealth and other resources. Nature had formed 

 him to be a leader among men. Large and well-built, with an 

 imposing presence, a remnrkable memory, ajierfect command of 

 language, a power of expressing himself clearly and tersely, a 

 mind both logical and strongly practical, and above all a strong, 

 rich, sonorous voice, he was always as attractive as his discours- 

 es were pleasing and instructive. 



In many ways he was in advance ot his time. A quart- 

 er of a century before their inception he is found advocat- 

 ing the establishment of free schools, and the cdnstrnction 

 of a railway to develop the fishery wealth of northern New 

 Brunswick; new methods of curing fish and making them more 

 valuable as an article of export; new means of taking them in 

 greater quantities; and the dissemination of knowledge of their 



