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not uniformly to be seen throughout the volume ; but it unhappily ap- 

 pears on the title page. Appellations like Bay of Quinte, Bay of 

 Ckaleurs, Bay of Fundy^ imbedded in our every day speech, and asso- 

 ciated with many a story of adventure in primitive Canadian life, must 

 not be tampered with. A vicious rapidity of enunciation, noticeable 

 occasionally in the rural districts of Canada, may produce to the ear the 

 sound Bay Quinte, (which we cannot refrain from saying, is to our- 

 selves something dreadful ; Anglicised too, as probably, at the same time, 

 Quinte would be). But the intention of the speaker, in such a case, 

 is not to drop the " of." He in fact does not omit it, but gives it the 

 obscure sound represented by o' in such expressions as John o'Groat, 

 Jack o'Lantern, Ten o'clock ; which are expressions purely popular, 

 not to be countenanced in the educated speech of the present day, 

 except in sport; not to be copied in the deliberate formation of local 

 or personal names; and above all, in written and printed English of a 

 serious character, not to be obtruded on the eye, in an additionally- 

 clipped condition. H. S. 



