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by barriers of race, creed, local interest, distance, and insufficient 

 means of communication. As naturalists, we hold to its natural 

 features as fixing its future destiny, and indicating its present in- 

 terests, and regard its local subdivisions as arbitrary and artificial. 

 It is from tbis point of view, and not with reference to the con- 

 troverted points agitated in the public press, that we regard the 

 publications named at the head of this article, and which we refer 

 to as specimens of many similar works. 



Mr. Morris, lecturing to a popular audience, and desirous of 

 statiug important facts in such a manner, as to fix them on 

 the minds of his hearers, is at once statistical, patriotic, and pro- 

 phetic. Facts and figures relating to extent of territory, popula- 

 tion, revenues, actual products, form the groundwork of the lec- 

 ture, and on these are built broad views of the duties of the peo- 

 ple of British North America, and glowing anticipations of the 

 results of the union of all the British territory, from Newfoundland 

 to Vancouver's Island, in one great nationality. The lecturer sees 

 in the future a fusion of races, a union of all the existing provinces 

 with new provinces to grow up in the west, and a railway to the 

 Pacific. The design of the lecture is excellent, and its facts seem 

 to have been carefully collected. The success which has attended 

 its publication by Mr. Lovell, shows the popular nature of the 

 subject, and the effective manner in which it has been treated. 



Mr. Hamilton's pamphlet is published by authority of the Pro- 

 vincial Parliament of Nova Scotia, and qontains a condensed 

 statement of the wealth and resources of that colony, which may 

 be commended to any one desirous of knowing the actual material 

 value of these Lower Colonies, now claiming alliance with Canada. 

 The Acadian provinces, though hitherto overshadowed by the 

 greater growth of Canada and the Western States, have in their 

 extent of fertile land, their mineral riches, their fisheries and their 

 trade, an importance which may fairly entitle them to stand side 

 by side with either Lower or Upper Canada, and it does not re- 

 quire any gift of prophecy to discern that their resources, more 

 especially their coal, their iron, and their maritime situation, must 

 eventually render them the seats of a dense population, more 

 wealthy and more influential in the world's destinies than the 

 more purely agricultural and more sacluded population of the 

 West. 



The Keport of the Harbour Engineers, shows that Montreal 

 now turns her enquiring eyes along the whole length of the St- 



