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becoming an instrument for the acconiplisliment of the greatest 

 amount of evil, and was therefore the iporst thing in the world. 



So in conclusion, the teeth like JEsop's tongues, occupyinf^^ the 

 same tenement, \^ properly cared for and directed aright, so that 

 they be neither tr7'e^?«/<:^r or defective^ may carry us to that period 

 of life which Shakespeai^ calls the seventh age — Sans teeth, sans 

 <3yes, sans taste, sans every thing ; but when not cared for and 

 directed aright become instruments of slow torture and agonizini^ 

 pain, until patience ceases to he a virtue, one by one thev are 

 removed or prematurely lost, smldenly transferring youth into old 

 iig^. 



I have endeavoured to show, from these few imperfect observa- 

 tions, that special agents affect these organs both in their construc- 

 tion as well as destruction ; that a remedial treatment is desirable 

 and possible 1 that the remedy lies to a great extent within the 

 power of each individual ; that the disease may be prevented, a 

 liealthy condition preserved, life prolonged, and instead of prema- 

 ture loss, they will continue as th-e Creator designed they should, 

 co-extensive with other members of the body, endowed ordinarilv 

 with the same degree of perfection as other constituents which 

 3iiake up the human physical organization. 



Art. XI. Ox thj: Geology of the Iron Deposits of 

 PiGTou Oouxty. By JRey. D. Hoxeymax, D. C. L., 



F. G, S. , &c.. Director of the Provincial Museum. 



{Read April 8, 1872.) 



ABSTKACT: 



Ix the Appendix to Reports on the Pictoii Coal Field, Heport 

 of Progress of the Canad.ian Stirvey from 18<)6 to 1869, 2^age 

 408, Mr. Hartley says: " Several deposits of Specular ore Avere 

 examined. These all occurred in a range of metamorphic rocks 

 lying ten or tv. elve miles to the south of the Coal Field. Of the 

 age of tlieir formation I cannot speak with certainty, but it is 

 probably Upper Silurian. The rocks consist of qiiartzites of lio-hr 



