OF WESTERN CANADA. 45 



mannei', the mountainous character of that region, and the curious 

 ■way in which its western coast is penetrated and zigzagged through 

 with fiords. Preceding the Atlas proper, are 97 pages, of three- 

 columns each, occupied with carefully written essays on subjects 

 proper to be discussed in su.ch a work. Dr. H. H. Miles, of Lennox- 

 ville, gives a resume of the Civil History of the Dominion. Dr. 

 Sterry Hunt treats of its Topography and Physical Geography. The 

 Geology of Upper and Lower Canada has been undertaken by Mr. 

 Kobert Bell, that of the other Provinces by other equally competent 

 hands. Drs. ISTicholson and Ellis contribute an interesting chapter 

 on our Zoology. Dr. Cannifi" gives a lucid history of Steam naviga- 

 tion in Canada. Dr. HodgiBS has described our system of Public 

 Education, Our Railways are discussed at great length, and our 

 Climatology is not overlooked. 



(2.) Walker and Miles' New Standai-d Atlas of the Dominion of 

 Canada. This is a folio volume, 14 x 18 inches in size. It contains 

 elaborately constructed and beautifully executed maps of the Pro- 

 vinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfound- 

 land, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, and British. Columbia, on a 

 large scale; maps of the Coal Regions, the Lumber Districts, and 

 Timber Lands, and the Military Defences ; a chart of the world, 

 shewing the relative positions of the Dominion, and the other British 

 Possessions, and the Ocean Steamships' connections on both sides of 

 the Continent with the Railway systems of Canada. Preceding the 

 maps are fifty 3-column pages of printed matter, giving briefly the 

 most recent statistical information in regard to all the Provinces of 

 the Dominion, their Railways, their Post Offices, their Banks, their 

 Geology and Mineral productions, with lists, and descriptions of the 

 cities and chief towns. On the title-page is a well-executed shield, 

 combining the arms of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia. The whole work is 

 dedicated, by permission, to the Eaid of Dufierin. 



A remarkable lithograph Railway Map of the Province of Ontario 

 was published at Toronto in 1876, at the office of the Nation news- 

 paper. By means of heavy black tracings it shewed the railways in 

 existence and the railways in prospect. It was intended to be, to 

 the public eye, a kind of reductio ad ahsurduin of the multitudinous 

 schemes for new , lines of railway which were being perpetually 

 started, irrespective of the actual necessities of the population, and 

 which the Government was asked to subsidize. 



