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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



A REPERTORY OF 



AND A RECORD OF THE 



PEOCEEDIN&S OF THE CAIADIAI INSTITUTE. 



TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, FEBRUARY, 1853. 



CONTENT 



Memorial of the Canadian Institute 145 



Notes on tlie Geology of Toronto, by Professor Hind 147 



The Mineral Springs of Canada, by Professor Croft 151 



The HoKe and its Rider, by J. Bailey Turner, Esq. 154 



Extracts from Exhibition Lectures 158 



Notice of an Indian Burying Ground, by E. Van Courtlandt 160 



Transactions of the Canadian Institute 161 



Reviews, — 



Toronto Harbour: 



A Report by Walter Shanley, Esq., C.E., 1853. 



A Report by Sir R. Bonycastle, 1843. 



A Paper by Sandford Flemming, Esq., C. E., 1851.- 



A Supplementary Paper by Sandford Flemming, 

 Esq., C. E., 1851. 



A Letter by Kivas Tully, Esq 162 



Journal of the Society of Arts, and of the Institutions in 



Union 164 



Scientific Intelligence, — 



A problem Solved 165 



Declivity of Rivers 165 



Coating Iron with Copper 165 



Manufacture of Gas from Wood 165 



New Art of Ornamenting Metallic Surfaces 165 



Purification of Naphtha and Naphthahne — 165 



Canadian Shipping 166 



Monthly Meteorological Register for Toronto 166 



" " « Montreal 167 



On the Preparation of Liquid Glue 168 



On the Composition and Microscopic Structure of certain 



Basaltic and MetamorjDhic Rocka 168 



Annual Conversazione, Canadian Institute 168 



Obituary, — 



Death of Sears O.Walker 168 



Death of Great Grand HIiilrlrpn^oi-gnnTg--^- — 168 



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