M BAM13.T0^>— ON SUBMERGED FOREST. 



of water. Many of these are of a red colour, and of a mucM 

 ]ai:ger size than their iii-shore brethren. 



I have enumerated perch among' the edible fishes, because 

 though used oulj as food for swine at St. Margaret's Bay, they 

 areeaten in many other places, and are said to be ver}' palatable 

 "when bki lined and proper 13^ fried. 



Some years ago in Portland, U. S., I saw a large pic-uic 

 P3.j.'ty. leaving the wharf in a small steamer with music and flying 

 colours, for an excursion down the Bay. The party, I found by 

 an aeeouiit of their excursion, afterwards published, was no 

 other than the " Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Gun- 

 ners," and one source of amusement for the day was angling;^ 

 for and eating their finny namesakes. Happy days were these, 

 before the terrible scourge of civil war fell upon that wonder- 

 fully prosperous country,'. Well would it have been for that 

 people if innocent amusements had served as a sufficient outlet 

 iar their excitable temperament, and brotherly love had proved 

 too strong for ambition and politicai animositj'. Well will it be 

 for us if we be warned by their exam])le, and the sight of the 

 wreck, prove stronger tha.u the voice of the syren. " ^am titer 

 ■res agUur jmHes cumproximus ardei." 



Art. XI. On Submerged Forest Trees in Cumberland 

 Basin. By P. S. Hamilton. 



Near the margins of the head waters of the Bay of Fundy 

 ane found, in several places, certain accumulations which geolo- 

 gists have distinguished by the name of " submerged forests." 

 One of the most extensive and most plainly visible of these is to 

 be found near the head of Cumberland Basin, and has been caw- 

 fully examined and geographically described by Prof. Dawson 

 in,Jiis " Acadian Geology," page 32: but similar appearances 

 may be seen elsewhere on the shores of Chiegnecto Bay, and 

 also of Cobequid Bay and of. some estuaries of streams empty- 

 ing.iato Mi uas Basin. At the several places referred to, on the 

 «xtfti).y,ye slope of the flats between 'high water and low^ water 



