500 Canadian Record of Science. 
became known even before the aggravation of his illness 
was realized. M. Brunet enjoyed lucidity of mind almost 
to the last. The end came without pain, on the second of 
October, 1876, at eight o’clock in the evening. He was fifty 
years of age, exactly twenty-eight of which he passed in 
the priesthood. His remains rest in the chapel of the 
Seminary. 
An ANCIENT BLAZE. 
By D. P. PBaNHALLOW. 
Somewhat more than four years since, I described! an 
interesting blaze of considerable antiquity, found in the 
interior of a beech tree when in process of being cut up for 
firewood. Ina more recent publication’, additional notes 
were offered, and the statement then made, that the pos- 
sible date when the blaze was made—assuming the 160 
rings of growth to represent exactly as many years, and 
also assuming that none of the external layers had been 
removed by decay and other causes—corresponded exactly 
with the date when the parish of Two Mountains was estab- 
lished, viz., 1721. 
It was therefore thought possible that it represented an 
old boundary blaze, of which there might be others pre- 
served in some of the old trees of the vicinity. This ex- 
planation, however, was never a satisfactory one to me, 
inasmuch as surveyors would hardly undertake so elaborate 
a figure for such a purpose, nor would they be liable to 
make the lines of the figure so narrow as to render their 
early obliteration, within a few menths at the farthest, a 
matter of certainty. 
At our request, therefore, Mr. Oswald, who originally 
discovered the specimen, kindly undertook to make a 
1 Science ITI., 356. 
* Trans. R. Soc. Can., V., iv. 50, 
