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more. The meetings will run from Tuesday, the 2nd 

 September, to Friday, the 5th. The public will have 

 every opportunity of listening to the papers, and hear- 

 ing the remarks thereon. Yesterday, there was a meeting 

 of the Citizens' Eeception Committee, under the Pre- 

 sidency of James Macpherson Le Moine, Esq., in Mr. 

 Joly's office. 



The form which the entertainment of our visitors 

 will take, will likely be a trip round the harbour, and a 

 sail to La Bonne Ste. Anne. Mr. Tach£ will read a 

 memoir on our system of Crown Lands leases and dis- 

 tribution, and addresses will be delivered by Messrs. 

 Joly, Le Moine and Fk£mont. " 



The following is a list of the members of the reception 

 committee : — J. M. LeMoine, president ; H. Gr. Joly, secre- 

 tary ; Colonel Landry, Colonel Forsyth, Messrs. Archibald 

 Campbell, E. E. Tache, Jules Tessier, S. Lesage, Wm. Little, 

 Auguste DujDuis, Hon. Colonel Rhodes, K. R. Dobell, Israel 

 Tarte, T. Beckett, David Bell, Hon. F. Langelier, Hon. John 

 Hearn, the Mayor of Quebec, Hon. Charles Langelier, L'Abbe 

 Laflamme, Ernest Pacaud, R. Turner, Thos. Chapais, Dr. Bol- 

 duc, H. M. Price, Dr. George Stewart, Victor Chateauvert, A. 

 H. Furniss, E. A. Barnard. 



Forest preservation and tree re-planting are not only 

 frought for us, with immense commercial importance, 

 they also appeal tenderly to some of the best feelings 

 of the inmate of a rural home, as well as to those of 

 the holiday rambler in our solemn woods. Who can 

 see a forest and fail to be impressed, with its solitary, 

 silent grandeur. 



Truly, has it been said " as one looks upon the 

 " green-robed senators of Mighty woods," it is not diffi- 

 cult to realise to some extent, the feeling which prompted 

 the ancients to associate them with the worship of the 

 Deity ; and we can almost forgive the Greeks for believ- 

 ing that the woods were peopled with Gods." 



" Time will not number the hours 



We'll spend in the woods 



Where no sorrow intrudes 



With the streams and the birds and the flowers. " 



Alexander McLachlan. 



