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he cannot fail to take notice of many interesting 

 circumstances and phenomena ; and if he has any 

 knowledge of natural history, every moment of the 

 day must be suggesting something new and inter- 

 esting to him. A strange scene, for example, 

 which once came within my observation, com- 

 pletely puzzled me at the time, and has done so 

 ever since. I was in Nova Scotia in the fall, when 

 one day my Indian told me that in a lake close by 

 all the rocks were moving out of the water, a cir- 

 cumstance which I thought not a little strange. 

 However, I went to look at the unheard-of spec- 

 tacle, and sure enough there were the rocks appar- 

 ently all moving out of the water on to dry land. 

 The lake is of considerable extent, but shallow, and 

 full of great masses of rock. Many of these masses 

 appear to have travelled right out of the lake, and 

 are now high and dry, some fifteen yards above the 

 margin of the water. They have ploughed deep 

 and regularly defined channels for themselves. 

 You may see them of all sizes, from blocks of, say, 

 roughly speaking, six or eight feet in diameter, 

 down to stones which a man could lift. Moreover, 

 you find them in various stages of progress, some 

 a hundred yards or more from shore and apparently 

 just beginning to move ; others half-way to their 



