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and Cobeqiiid bay m a little open sail boat. I have seen men 

 from twenty miles up the ShubensiCitdie river, away dow^n the 

 bay nearly to Economy point, in log eilnoes, tishing. And I 

 have seen Indian bark canoes crossing the bay near cape D'Or. 

 Still it must be admitted that the Bay of Fundy is no place for 

 a stranger to be without a good pilot. Finally — as to the 

 dangers of navigation there — I will hazard the assertion that the 

 number of marine disasters in the Bay of Fundy is less than on 

 the same extent of coast in any other part of Nova Scotia, 



Art. V. On Trichina Spiralis. By George Lawson, 

 Ph. D., LL.D., Professor' of CJiemistry and Mineralogy, 

 Dalhousie College. 



(Read Feb. 4, 1867;) 



In this paper the author described the structure and develope- 

 ment of Trichina Spiralis, drawings of which, and specimens 

 under the microscope from the human subject were exhibited. 

 It was stated that although careful search had been made, no 

 trichiufe had been found in pork exposed for sale in the Halifax 

 markets. 



Several other Entozoa were referred to, and a description 

 given of Taenia pectinata^ which occurs in the intestines of the 

 porcupine in great quantity, both in Canada and Nova Scotia^ 

 Specimens were shown. 



Art. VI. A Fortnight in the Backwoods of Shelburnb 

 AND Weymouth. By J. Matthew Jones, F. L. S. 



(Read Feb. 4, 1867. J 



A FORTNIGHT sceiiis but a brief space, yet much may be done 

 and seen in that time. Some few years ago, on my lirst arrival 

 from England, I had the good fortune to join an expedition sent 

 to report upon the state of the timber on the admiralty reserves 

 in the western part of this Province, and I was introduced for 

 the first time to the pleasures of a forest life in a snug little 

 camp, pitched in a charming nook beside the limpid waters of 

 the ever winding Roseway, a short distance to the northward of 

 Shelburne. It would be useless for me to dilate upon the feel- 



