92 NOTE ON THE COMPOSITION 



" The sun goes down, the Crescent moon 



Is brightening in the firmament, 



And what is yonder roar ? 



That sinking now, and swelling now, 



Still louder, louder grows. 

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 " The moon is bright above. 



And the great Ocean opens on their way." 



May we not well hope that, under the protection of Divine Provi- 

 dence, the future progress of the Province will be even more pros- 

 perous than its past has been. Her children enjoy advantages un- 

 surpassed in the history of any country ; a soil whose abundant 

 fertility readily yields to the husbandman the most valuable agricul- 

 tural products ; a climate which, notwithstanding its extremes, brings 

 all those products to full maturity ; a system of education, adapted 

 in its elementary portion to the wants of the poorest of the commu- 

 nity, and rising to the highest requirements of intellectual culture and 

 scientific attainments ; a body of law, devised by the wisdom of past 

 ages, and improved by the experience of successive generations ; a 

 constitution, which confers the privilege and imposes the obligation 

 of working out the problem of self-government under the guardian- 

 ship of the Mighty Empire of which we form part ; and above all 

 these : for their guiding star, Christianity, which confers, and be it 

 reverently acknowledged, alone confers the power to satisfy the 

 profoundest longings of the human heart, and to lead all who follow 

 its guidance, to the promised haven of eternal peace. 



NOTE ON THE COMPOSITION OP PAEALLEL 

 EOTATIONS. 



BY J. B. CHEBRIMAN, M. A., CANTAB : 

 PBOFESSOB OF NATUBAL PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TOKONTO. 



Poinsot, in his famous Memoire sur la Rotation des Corps, has 

 pointed out the fundamental connection between the forms to which 

 a system of Eorces acting on a rigid body can be reduced, and those 

 by which the motion of a free rigid body at any instant can be ex- 

 hibited. It is the object of the present note to trace this analogy 

 in a particular case, which has not, so far as I am aware, yet been 

 noticed. 



Any system of Eorces acting on a rigid body can be reduced to a 



