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leaked through, — a jacket of moleskin, shining with grease, and 

 trowsers patched on one knee in four places, and with a burnt 

 hole in the other: with beef boots — Canada boots, as thej are 

 called — torn and roughened all over with scraping on the stumps 

 and branches of trees, and patched on the legs with sundry 

 pieces of leather of divers colors ; a broad-brimmed and round- 

 topped hat, once white, but now no color, and battered into all 

 shapes. With all these adornments, I am not surprised that 

 Mrs. Barton, speaking of her children, and saying that here 

 was "a little fellow "frightened of nothing on earth," should 

 qualify the expression by saying, " but I think he's a little 

 scared at you^ Sir.'' 



It was not alone in the field that Sir William was busy. His 

 of&ce work was often most arduous, and during the earlier years 

 of his directorship, in addition to preparing his annual report, 

 he even kept the accounts, entering every item of expenditure, 

 so that he could at any time show exactly how every penny of 

 the public money placed at his disposal had been spent. ' He 

 also tells us that, with his own hands, he made, at that time, 



four manuscript copies of the Annual Eeport of Progress, oil 



reaching more tha 



n one hundred 



printed pages— one copy 



the Government, c 



me for the Hon 



se of Assembly, one for 1 



Legislative Council 



I, and one for the printer. 



His manner of li 



ving was simple 



as it was solitary. Like 



four brothers, he 



never married. 



nor does he seem to ht 



formed many intin 



late friendships. 



Still every one who kn 



loved him and respected him, and if you go the length and 

 breadth of all the land, you will everywhere hear his praises, 

 alike from rich and poor. 



He peculiarly possessed the power of inspiring others with his 

 own enthusiasm ; not only those in his employ, but even un- 

 educated farmers and backwoodsmen — men who, as a rule, are 

 rather sceptical about the advantages to be derived from geology. 



Though possessed of private means, he spent little upon him- 

 self; not that he was parsimonious, but he cared not for fashion 

 or luxury. But with him Science never pleaded her needs in 

 vain. The first grant of the Legislature, to make a geological 

 survey of the Colonies, was £1,500 — an amount which. Sir 

 William quaintly remarked, was but a drop of what would be 

 required to float him over twenty-five degrees of longitude and ten 

 of latitude. This was, of course, very soon spent, and not only 

 this, but at the end of the second year the Survey was £800 

 in his debt, and he had no guarantee whatever that his money 

 would be returned to him. Since then the Survey has been 

 constantly indebted to him for books, instruments, and other 

 aids, and the building on St. James street, now used for office 

 purposes, was built by him, two years ago, and rented to the 



