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Logan, who was in England at the time, returned to Canada in 

 the fall and proceeded to Kingston, then the seat of government. Here 

 the question of an assistant was discussed, and, on the recommendation, 

 of De la Beche, the services of Mr. A. Murray, a gentleman who had 

 been educated for the navy but who had served for some time on the 

 ordnance survey of Britain, were secured. Murray was already, to 

 some extent, acquainted with Canada, having resided here for several 

 years, and served as a volunteer, also, in the rebellion of 1837. The 

 personal acquaintance of these two men, who have rendered such signal 

 service to this country from a scientific standpoint, began in the winter 

 of 1842-43, and the friendship then established continued unbroken till 

 the death of the former in 1875. 



Limited as was the area of Canada fifty years ago, compared wibh 

 the enormous extent of territory now included under that name, the 

 inception and carrying out of a plan of survey such as Logan contem- 

 plated was not a thing to be lightly entered upon or undertaken. 

 Great portions of the country were accessible with difficulty, means of 

 communication were slow and expensive, and the amount of money at 

 his disposal and the staff necessary for the work were lamentably smalL 

 With characteristic energy, he addressed himself to the task, and soon 

 formulated a scheme for the carrying on of the explorations required. 

 In the spring of 1843, Logan, who had spent the winter in England, 

 again returned to Canada, reaching Halifax in May, whence he deter- 

 mined to make the journey overland through Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 

 wick and Quebec, in order to obtain some preliminary ideas as to the 

 structure of that section. It was on this trip that his first work was 

 done in Nova Scotia, and particularly in connection with his famous 

 Joggins section already referred to, of which it has been truly said that 

 " it forms a remarkable monument of his industry and powers of obser- 

 vation." From his pi'evious acquaintance with the rocks and structure 

 of the coal fields of South Wales, Logan was specially fitted to under- 

 take this task, the correct working out of which promised to give him 

 the most satisfactory data for determining the structure and value of 

 the coal fields throughout the rest of that province, as well as of the Car- 

 boniferous areas of New Brunswick and eastern Quebec. This great 

 work completed, he s]tent some time in the examination) of the sections 



