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course with liim at Quebec, of testing my fitness or unfitness, Mr.] 

 Logan did not liesitate to request rue to perform in his name, a geolo- 

 gical examination ; and that he has expressed himself perfectly satis- 

 fied with the manner in which I conducted it. 



Thirdly, that my evidence in relation to the amount, &c., of work 

 already performed by the survey, was not derived from "an inspec- 

 tion of packing cases buried in the vaults of the survey office" — as 

 gratuitously inferred by my anonj'mous assailant — but amongst otber 

 sources, from a careful examination of published and unpublished 

 documents in great numbers, placed in my hands by Mr. Logan, and 

 elaborately explained by that gentleman in person. 



And, lastly, that with regard to the establishment as a scientific 

 truth" of the deductions flowing from the " Postdam-sandstone tracks," 

 my evidence before the Committee, is fully borne out by what I have 

 said above. The tracks were not in the first instance actually dis- 

 covered by Jlr. Abraham, as erroneously stated in the Journal ; and, 

 allowing all praise to that gentleman for his investigation and announce- 

 ment of the matter, I put it to every lover of fair-play, if, without 

 the interference of the survey, without Mr. Logan's exertions the 

 merit of the discovery would not have incurred the greatest risk of 

 being lost to British science. I can only say that amongst scientific 

 men, no one questions for a moment to whom the credit belongs. 



These facts established, I may pass, without reply, the pseudo- 

 facetious remarks and attempts at witticism indulged in by my 

 anonymous critic. They would be harmless enough, indeed, in them- 

 selves, were it not for the too-evident prejudice to which I find it difBcult 

 to avoid ti-acing their origin. 



Tlic Great Coux't ill the Crystal Palace at Sydeuliaxn. 



Passing on from the Niobe, the visitor runs an almost painful gaunt- 

 let between a row of objects, among which it is almost as difficult to 

 advance as to halt. He pauses before the statue of Antinous, so much 

 more divine than his attendant Genius ; pores over small bas-reliefs of 

 dancing figures — each a fountain of living art in itself — lingers entranc- 

 ed before that heavenly apparition in a halo of transparent drapery, who 

 is descending, or condescending, to the sleeping Endymion ; glances 

 along a wall hung with morsels and fragments to which history can 

 give no name, and for which art needs none ; tracing in each that 

 school from which modern Italy drew her inspiration, and when in its 

 refined decorum — the only morality of art — was purposely fitted to 

 guide the purity, the fervour, and the ignorance of Christian art; nay, 

 in some cases identifying the very forms which have served as models: 

 here, a figure all fluttering with heavenly speed, which, transposed by 

 a Christian hand, became .an announcing angel ; and there, graceful 

 maidens with musical instruments, who need but wings to convert them 

 into adoring Seraphim. 



It is here with the eye saturated with beauty, that something like 

 justice can be done to our matchless Elgin marbles. No matter how 

 the taste may have I'isen with what it feeds on, Phidias still stands on 

 a pinnacle above it. There lie those Fates — or whatever these figures 

 may represent — like petrifactions of a higher order of beings, headless, 

 .armless, footless, yet with that plenitude of grandeur in their rich 

 ample laps which alike defies annihilation and analysis. Happy the 

 artist, and modest and wise, who can study these unrivalled remains ; 

 mark their strength and glory, their truth and delicacy — follow the 

 magical rendering of the form, trace the exquisite flow of the draper^', 

 and so far forget all thoughts of self as to return home with inspira- 

 tion in his heart and not despair. 



Classlfieatiou of tlic Different Varieties of Canatltan Wooils, 



Specimens -wliereof form tlie Canadian Collection 



for tlic Paris Kxliibition* 



1° MAGNOLIACEiE. 

 White wood, so called in this country, (Liriodendron tulipifera. Linn.) 



2P TLLIACEiE. 

 Bass-wood. (Tilia Americana. LinncSe.) 



3° ANACARDLICEJE. 

 Sumac. (Rhus typhina, Linn^e.) 



4° ACERACE.5;. 

 Sugar maple. (Acer saccharinum Linnde.) 

 Rock maple, " " 



Curled maple " " 



Birds-eye maple, " " 



Soft maple. (Acer dasycarpum. Ehrhart.) 



5° AMYGDALEiE. 

 Wild yellow plum. Prunus Americana. Marshall.) 

 Eed cherry. (Cerasus Pennsylvanica. Loisel.) 

 Black cherry. (Cerasus serotina. De CandoUe.) 

 Choke cherry. (Cerasus Virginiana. Dc CandoUe.) 



0° CORXACE.E. 

 Cornel, flowering dogwood. (Cornus Florida. Linn^e) 



7° rOMACEJE. 

 Dotted or Apple Thorn. (CratEegus punctata. Jacquin.) 

 Picd Thorn. (Cratajgus coccine.a. Linn(5e.) 

 White Thorn. (Crattegus crus Galli. Linnee.) 

 Moiintain Ash. (Pyrus Americana. De CandoUe.) 

 June or Service berry. (Amelanchier Canadensis. Torrey and Gray.) 



so FKASIXE^. 

 White Ash, (Fraxinus Americana. Linn.) 

 Black Ash, (Fraxinus Sambucifolia. Lambert.) 

 Rock Ash, (Fraxinus Pubescens. Walter.) 

 Rim Ash, Fraxinus Juglandifolia. Lambert.) 



9° LAUEACEiE. 

 Sassafras, (Sassafras Officinale. Von Esenbeck.) 



10° ULM.ACEiE. 

 White Elm, (Ulmus Americana. Linn.) 

 Eed or Slippery Elm, (Ulmus Fulva. Michanx.) 

 Rock Elm, (Ulmus Racemosa. Thomas.) 

 Gray Elm, ( " " ) 



11° JTJGLANDACEJ!. 

 Butternut, (Jnglans Ciuerea. Linn.) 

 Black Walnut, (Juglans Nigra, Linn.) 

 Soft Walnut. 



SheUb.ark Hickory, (Carya Alba. Nuttal.) 

 Smooth bark Hickory, ( " Tormentosa. Nuttal.) 

 Pignut, ( " Glabra. Torney.) 



Bitternut, ( " Amara. Nuttal.) 



li° CUPULIEEREiE. 

 White Oak, ( Quercus Alba. Linn.) 



Swamp White Oak, ( " Bicolor. WiUd.) 

 Red O.ak, ( " Rubra. Linn.) 



Black Oak, ( " Nigra. Linn.) 



Chesnut, (Castanea Vesca. Linn.) 

 White Beech, (Fagus Ferruginea. Alton.) 

 Blue Beech, Horn-Beam, (Carpinus Americana. Miehaux.) 

 Iron Wood, (Ostrya Virginica. Willd.) 



13° BETULACE.B. 

 Paper or Canoe Birch, (Betula Papyracea. Aiton. 

 Yellow Birch, ( " Excelsa. Alton.) 



Cherry Birch, ( " Lenta. Linn.) 



Black Birch, ( " Nigra. Linn.) 



Alder, (Alnus Incana. Willd.) 



14° SALICACEJE. 

 Black AViUow, (Salix Nigra. MarshaU.) 

 Aspen Poplar, (Populus Tremuloides. Mich.aux.) 



Large-Toothed Aspen, ( " Grandidentata. Michaux.) 

 Balm of Gilead, ( " Balsamifera. Linn.) 



Cotton Wood, Necklace Poplar^ (Populus Monilifera. Aiton.) 



16° PLANTAXACEiE. 

 Button-Wood, American Sycamore, (Plantanus Occidentalis. Linn.) 



16° CONIFERE.'E. 

 Pitch Pine, ( Pinus Rigida. Miller.) 

 Red Pine, ( " Resinosa. Aiton. 

 Yellow Pine, ( " Mitis. Michaux.) 

 White or Weymouth Pine, (Pinus Strobus. Linn.) 

 Balsam Fir, (Abies Bals.amea. Marshall.) 



Hemlock Spruce, ( " Canadensis. Michaux.) 

 White Spruce, ( " alba. Michaux.) 



Black Sprace, ( " nigra. Poiret.) 



American Larch, Tamarack, Larix Americana. Michaux.) 

 White Cedar, (Thuya occidentalis. Linn.) 

 Red Cedar, Savin, (Juniperus Virginiana. Linn.) 



These woods are found in abundance in all our forests, with very 

 few exceptions ; they are, with respect to the soil proper to each, 

 subject to the same conditions as in other countries. The only remark 

 of a general nature which we may here make is, that the families of 

 juglajidacece and cupidiferece are more particularly the produce of the 

 Western section of the Province, whil? those of the coniferecR and 

 aceracecs are more particularly that of the Eastern section. — Off. Report, 



