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history, it by no means depends upon its past to-day, but it 
is a live, thriving place, and on the point of cleanliness is a 
prilliant exception to the usual run of villages in this pro- 
vince. The streets are lined with trees, not branches ruth- 
lessly stuck in for a temporary féte but actually planted to 
beautify the village. The old houses supply antiquity, but 
the smart brick stores offer a type of modern civilization, 
and business has been of such a satisfactory nature that 
until last winter there had not been a failure for about a 
dozen years. 
About 2 o’clock those who, as Mr. J.S. Brown put it, were 
fortunate enough not to bring baskets, partook of an excel- 
lent dinner at Goulet’s Hotel. 
At four o’clock a meeting was held at the station, under 
the chairmanship of Mr. John S. Shearer. Addresses were 
delivered by Sir J. W. Dawson, Prof. Penhallow, and Mr, 
J.S. Brown. 
Sir J. W. Dawson, on behalf of the “knights of the 
hammer,” announced that the local formation is calciferous 
sandstone or lower silurian. It contains few fossils, the 
characteristic one being the Murchisonia Anna, so named 
by Billings, at Dr. Dawson’s suggestion, because first found 
at our own St. Anne’s, near Montreal. On the High street 
were two large stones of trap dyke. The inside of them 
having been softer than the outside, it had been so hollowed 
out by the weather as to form small drinking troughs. A 
large deposit of a variety of kaolin is found near St. 
Kustache. Attempts are being made to utilise it for paint, 
and this visit of the society to St. Hustache may result in 
its being used for pottery, as Dr. Dawson pronounces 
it ‘a most remarkable earth.” The Botanical prize was 
awarded to Dr. E. Blackader, for a collection of 34 species 
of plants in blossom. 
Votes of thanks were tendered to the Mayor, Mr. Daoust, 
and the villagers in general for their handsome treatment 
and entertainment of the visitors. In reply to this Mr. 
Daoust said that they needed no thanks. They were well 
repaid by the fact that the society had deigned to pay them 
