[Footnote 54: Page 32.--This distinguished scientific man is a Nova
Scotian by birth, who, before he became so closely identified with
the prosperity of McGill College at Montreal as its principal, was
superintendent of education in his native province. His scientific
works are numerous, but the one which first brought him fame was his
"Acadian Geology: an Account of the Geological Structure and Mineral
Resources of Nova Scotia and Portions of the Neighbouring Provinces
of British America" (Edinburgh and London, 1855, 8vo.), which has run
through many editions, and is now a very large volume compared with the
little modest book that first ventured into the world of literature
nearly forty years ago.]