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ACADIENSIS

"Everyone versed in the history of this Province will readily recall that some of these boundaries have been subjects of serious international contentions, have exhausted the powers of the highest diplomacy, and have brought great nations within sight of war. A few are old, and interwoven with the earlier parts of our history, while others have had experience sufficiently remarkable or curious. Altogether, it is unlikely that any other country of equal size has had its boundaries so often or conspicuously in contention, so fully discussed by many and weighty commissions, so closely interlocked with its general history, or determined by so many distinct considerations as has the Province of New Brunswick."

"Notes on the Natural History and Physiography of New Brunswick," by W. F. Ganong, reprinted from the Bulletin of the Natural History Society, No. XX, 1901. 48 pages. Paper. Barnes & Co., printers, St. John, N. B.

The table of contents, which is as follows, gives a concise idea of the interesting nature of the work:

  1. On Forestry Literature Important for New Brunswick.
  2. On the Physiographic History of the Tobique River.
  3. Great Forest Fires in New Brunswick.
  4. Measurements of Magnetic Dip in New Brunswick.
  5. The Morphology of New Brunswick Water-falls.
  6. The Origin of the New Brunswick Peneplains.
  7. The Physiographic History of the Miramichi River.
  8. On a Lunar Rainbow seen on Trowsers Lake.
  9. On an Unusual Frost Effect of 1901 on the Tobique.
  10. On a Hypsometric Section across Central New Brunswick
  11. On the Physiographic History of the little Southwest Miramichi River.
  12. On the Physiography of the Tuadook (Little Southwest Miramichi) Lake Region.
  13. On the Physiography of the Milnagek (Island) Lake Basin.

Query

Can any reader of Acadiensis throw any light upon the origin of the name Loch Alva, applied to. the largest lake on the Musquash river in the Inglewood Manor? The name first appears along with the series of names from Scott's "Ivanhoe," given by Moses Perley in 1836, but Alva seems not to be in Scott, nor is there any Loch Alva in Scotland or anywhere. W. F. Ganong.


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