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geological or physiographic construction of the country. Of 
course it cannot be accurate in details, and for two reasons. First, 
the data are wholly insufficient as yet for a fully accurate map; 
and second, the scale is too small to allow correctness in limited 
areas of much diversity. For example, the scale is much too 
small to allow the topography south of Nictor Lake to be shown 
as accurately as we know it ; and this is true in many other places. 
Nevertheless, the map, I think, gives a correct idea of the general 
contours of New Brunswick. 
9 2. The Fact Basis of the Fire (or Phantom) Ship of 
Bay Chaleur. 
Read April, 4, 1905; re-written Jan 1906. 
One cannot be long in the Bay Chaleur country, especially ts 
eastern part, without hearing of the fire (or phantom) ship, said 
often to be seen on the bay. Until a short time ago I regarded 
the fire-ship as a pure fiction, with no basis other than the proie- 
ness of humanity to see wonders where they are expected, nr 
where others say they exist. But as a result of two visits to that 
country, during which I questioned many residents on the sub- 
ject, I have had to change my opinion; and I now believe there 
is really some natural phenomenon in that region which manifests 
itself in such a way as to be imaginable as a vessel on fire. 
First we note the literature of the subject. Naturally the im • 
aginative writers who have visited Bay Chaleur have seized upon 
the story of the fire-ship as a rare treasure, and, adding to the 
wildest local tales sundry fanciful imaginings of their own, with 
embellishments of banshees, pirates or picturesque historical 
personages, have produced weird fantasies such as are preferred to 
truth even by grown-up persons. A type of such stories is found 
in M ; ss E. B. Chase’s Quest of the Quaint (Philadelphia, 19029 
which connects the ship with the voyages of the Cortereals, 
making it a vessel set on fire by one of them when attacked by 
the Indians. From such a treatment there is every gradation, 
through many newspaper, guide-book and other accounts up to 
