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about the year ISSV, some very remarkable trenches and dykes for drainage 

 purposes, excavated by the might of his own arm, will be recalled. 



Papers of permanent value, by Mr. Dade, on the Law of Storms, and on the 

 Cholera Seasons of 1832 and 1834, are preserved in Volumes five and seven, 

 respectively, of the second series of the Canadian Journal. A note by him on 

 some Indian remains in the township of Beverley, in Volume one of the first series 

 of the same journal, is characteristic for its brevity and directness ; suggestive, in 

 its style, of letters from scientific country clergymen to Sylvanus Urban, in the 

 palmy days of that eai'ly promoter of useful knowledge. A valuable contribution 

 on the Meteorology of Toronto and its vicinity, by the same hand, was also very 

 recently communicated to the Canadian Institute. Mr. Dade's Tables of Obser- 

 vations on our local physical phenomena, carefully made from 1831 downwards, 

 are held by the authorities at the Toronto Observatory to be of special impor- 

 tance, as appertaining to a period of which no other records of the kind are extant. 

 Mr. Dade died on the morning of the 2nd instant (May, 1872), at his residence 

 in Georgetown, Esquesing, in his 'ZOth year, having been born June 20th, 1802, — 

 at Yarmouth, in Norfolk. Soon after his retirement from Upper Canada College, 

 he married a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Phillips, formerly Vice-Principal of that 

 institution. At Oakville, Stewartown and Georgetown, he undertook, without 

 emolument, occasional clerical duty, and devoted a portion of his time to the 

 preparation of young men for the Universities, dec. 



The prize dissertation above referred to fills sixteen closely-printed octavo 

 pages in the Classical Journal. It is an admirably-sustained discussion, in 

 pure, easy-flowing Latin, of the most striking points in which modern men 

 have the advantage of their predecessors in the by-gone ages. (Quibusnam 

 prfficipue artibus recentiores antiques exsuperant ?) It is thrown into the form 

 of a conversation between the author and a friend; in the manner of Cicero. 

 The friend is a Q. Caspio. (The name Cispio occurs in the De Finibus.) His 

 character is thus drawn : " Erat autem is Cffipio, qui naturalem suam ingenii 

 bonitatem, assidua exercitatione et probatissimorum scriptorum tractatione ita 

 perpolierat, ut difficile pronunciatu esset, doctrinse ubertate magis an judicii 

 subtilitate prsestaret. Neque ille, uti multorum mos est, nihil nisi quod sacrarat 

 antiquitas admirari, neque se recentiorum terminis circumscribere solebat sed 

 nova cum veteribus comparando, quid in quoque genere optimum esset studiose 

 anquirere." The first portion of the conversation is supposed to be carried on 

 between the friends while walking up and down together on the sea-shore, after 

 supper. The scene is thus described : " In marinum littus concessimus (distat 

 enim non longe a CiBpionis villa), et lentis ibi passibus progredientes. Lunge in 

 placido sequoris sinu dormientis mite et tremulum jubar, coelumque stellis undique 

 ardentibus illuminatnm, taciti per aliquod tempus contemplati sumus, dum fluc- 

 tuum littoribus alludentium strepitus grato murmure mulcebat aures." For the 

 second portion of the conversation the friends adjourn to the house : " Sed visne," 

 Csepio says, " quoniam satis quidem, ut opinor, ambulatum est, et vespertina 

 hsecce frigora, ut ait poeta, parum cantos Isedere solent, locum mutemus, quodque 

 reliquum est hujus qusestionis intra domesticos parietes conficiamus ? Quse cum 

 dixisset, domum revertimus et posteaquam nos in coenaculum contulissemus, 



