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the spot for most effectually checking the inroads of the formidable 
Iroquois, as well as that most suitable for drawing to itself the 
Indian trade in peltries, which up till then found its way from the 
Lake Ontario regions to the Dutch merchants at Albany. No. 2 
has a continuation of the subject under the heading of the “ First 
Fort Frontenac,” detailing the history of the undertaking and the 
bearing and address of the great Frenchman whose name it bears, 
as wellas the enterprising La Salle’s connection with it. Like all 
M. Sulte’s’ French writings, these papers are composed in a most 
charming style. Other articles of general interest are Lemoine’s 
“ Hawkins’ Picture of Quebec, 1834,” “ The Building of the Church 
of Longue Pointe,” “The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the 
Montreal General Hospital, 1821,” ‘‘ Black-Hawk’s Speech in 1832 
at Prairie du Chien,” and a “ Sketch of the North-West Company.” 
Excaances.—Among the most valuable of the recent exchanges 
of Tap Recorp or Scrpxcp is“ The Journal of Geology,” a semi- 
quarterly magazine of geology and related sciences, published at 
Chicago by the University Press of Chicago, of which the second 
number is before us. All the articles are written with great care, 
and the get-up of the magazine is all that could be desired, the 
paper and type being excellent. The first paper in this number is 
from the pen of C. R. Van Hise, and is one of special interest to Cana- 
dian geologists, being ‘‘an historical sketch of the Lake Superior 
region to Cambrian time.” This is accompanied by a fine colored 
plate. “The Geological Time Scale,” by H. $8. Williams, is a valu- 
able resumé of the attempts of geologists to fix the age of the several 
series of rocks composing the earth’s surface. ‘“ Traces of Glacial 
Man in Ohio,” by W. H. Holmes, contains an account of the find- 
ing of a paleolith in a gravel pit at Newcomerstown in 1890. 
“ Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science,” the first number 
of which was issued in November last, is one.of the latest estab- 
lished organs of the opinions and observations of the active 
scientists of the United States. It must be said, however, that 
much of the matter embraced in this initial issue savours more of 
the spread eagleism of the fourth of July oration than of the 
modesty and sobriety which characterize true science, which is 
cosmopolitan. This remark is especially applicable to the last and 
most interesting article in the journal, “The Development of the 
American Trotter, a Study in Animal Physics,” by Geo. W. Curtis, 
U.S. A., Director Texas Experimental Station. 
R. C. 
