230 Bark days uj Canada. 



and it may, upon a closer exatuination, be found to extend 

 between the ridges of mountains in a southerly direction 

 much nearer to Quebec than is at present imagined. 



At all events it would be attended with highly beneficial 

 results, were a party sent overland from Quebec, to explore 

 more closely the intervening country. Certainly great 

 difficulties would be found in providing a sufficient supply 

 of provisions, but by sending two parties of trusty Indians, 

 the one from Chicoutimi and the other from I^orette, 

 depdts might be formed on the shores of some well known 

 lakes, sufficient to supply the wants of an exploring party. 

 Were no other object attained by sending out such a party, 

 the additional geographical knowledge which would be the 

 result, would amply compensate for all the labor and 

 expense employed on the occasion. 



A few Notes vjjon the Dark Days of 

 Canada, by the Honorable Chief Justice 

 Sewell, President of the iSociety. 



Among the atmospherical phenomena of Canada, the 

 dark days of October, JTSo, and of July, 1814, appear 

 worthy of notice. They were remarkable for their pecu- 

 liarity of character, and for the circumi^tanccs by which 

 they were accompanied ; and as an attempt to explain the 

 cause of the remarkable obscurity by which they were 



