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favourite resort for Avounded birds between Peggy's Cove and Dover, 

 whicli is thence called the "hospital." There is also a well-known 

 "'hospital" for sick and wounded fish about a quarter of a mile 

 outside of Peggy's Point. It is a narrow gulch or ravine with 

 a muddy bottom, thirty fathoms deep, bounded on each side by a 

 sort of rocky cliiF fifteen fathoms from the surface. Healthy fish, 

 observing ordinary rules, are found on the rocky bottom at each 

 ■side of this ravine, but in the muddy valley itself none but the sick 

 ■and wounded are taken. There they are caught of large size, but 

 what are called "logy fish" — many of them Avounded Avith deep 

 gashes, not such as are generally made with any of man's contriv- 

 ances, and all wretchedly thin. On either side of this hospital 

 hake "will not take bait in day time, but in the " sick bay" itself — - 

 ^'necessitas nullas hahet leges" — they will bite at all times. They are 

 hungry, and therefore likely convalescent, but not sufficiently strong 

 to defend themselves or take their ordinary prey at proper seasons 

 outside. 



Art. VII, — Some Additions to the Game of Nova Scotia. 

 By J. H. DuvAR, 



{Read Feb. 6, 1865.) 



"Natural History in the olden time" Avould be an excellent 

 subject for the pen of any member of this Institute, who combines 

 with his knowledge of Natural History a taste for dipping into 

 history proper. In following his liking for the latter pursuit, the 

 naturalist would stumble on records that would astonish the scien- 

 tific men of the present day. While it is impossible to withhold 

 our meed of admiration from the early travellers and missionaries 

 who, led by the spirit of adventure, or zeal for their order, made 

 their way into the most savage lands, and brought back not un- 

 faithful accounts of manners and customs, it is yet astonishing 

 how credulous they were in all that pertained to natiu-al history. 

 I have in my possession a tracing of a Jesuit map of Lake Supe- 

 rior, made in 1670, which agrees in almost every detail with the 

 modern chart, yet of the same date, when their topography was so 

 reliable, the reports of the good fathers on animated nature were 



