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at Toronto, and visited the Royal Museum there. 

 The geological and mineralological halls are on 

 the top floors. The principal light comes through 

 ground glass giving a beautiful diffused light. 

 The glass cases show no signs of reflected light. 

 Every specimen, stands out distinctly, as if laid 

 on a table. They had mounted the mosasaur 

 skeleton I sold Professor Parks some years be- 

 fore. The only large vertebrate on exhibition. 



We were anxious to make a trip by water and 

 pressed on to Port McNickles, where we took the 

 steamer Keetewin and slept that night in state 

 rooms instead of Pullman berths, as had been so 

 common with us of late. We woke next morn- 

 ing in the narrow stream between Lake Huron 

 and Superior. The scenery was grand and impres- 

 sive, the shore lines clothed with second growth 

 timber. We passed freighters hauling ten thou- 

 sand tons of coal to the west, and the same 

 amount of iron-ore to the eastern smelters. The 

 channel was marked by floating buoys, each one 

 carrying a light that was intermittent, as fast 

 as it went out, it was lighted again by two per- 

 manent lights below. Carbide is used to produce 

 the main light, and to keep the others going. 

 There were also lighthouses at intervals, built 

 in the water on strong cement bases. This pas- 

 sage way of the ships is as well lighted at nights, 

 as the streets of a city. We thought the boat 

 ride more enjoyable than the monotonous train; 

 and we enjoyed the sensation of being lifted into 



