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be very much better done, is perfectly obvious, when it is 
simply stated that the interests of the employer and the 
workman would then be identical. 
In the sequel it is proposed to consider the technical pos- 
sibility of effecting this desirable result, by means of the 
generation of the power at central stations ; under the best 
conditions of careful management and most economical 
type and size of prime mover; and its subsequent distribu- 
tion by means of one or other of the four working agents— 
steam, air, electricity or water—which have been prac- 
tically tested and found most capable of good results. 
RECLAIMING BoG IN WESTMORELAND County, NEW 
BRUNSWICK. 
By Prof. W. L. Goopwin, D.Sc. 
As is well known, the long wedge shape of the Bay of 
Fundy and its subdivisions causes the tides at the head of 
the bay to rise toa great height, and to rush up the ter- 
minal inlets with much force and velocity. When this rusk 
of water reaches Chignecto Bay it causes a rapid wearing 
away of the little-resisting clay, sandstone and shale which 
here form the shores. Thus the waters of the Bay of Fundy 
are proverbially muddy. The mud is constantly filling up 
the head waters of the bay, and great stretches of red flats 
are seen everywhere. Sir Wm. Dawson, in his Acadian 
Geology, has given a careful description of the natural pro- 
duction in this way of fertile “dyke” lands, and has also 
pointed out that unless such lands are kept drained they 
deteriorate into ‘ blue dyke,” and, finally, I may add, be- 
come quaking morasses and even lakes. ‘Thousand of acres 
of bog, interspersed with fresh water ponds, have thus been 
formed in Westmoreland County, New Brunswick, and the 
adjoining Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. These bogs 
and lakes stretch far into the land, dividing into three 
series, the middle series reaching from the Bay of Fundy 
side to within three or four miles of Baie Verte, on the op- 
