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its adoption. In the absence of such information I can only surmise that the ship was selected in allusion to the vessels which brought the Loyalists to the Province and that the motto spem reduxit (she restored hope), refers to the idea that in the new land to which she brought them they could look forward to peace and prosperity after their years of anxiety and persecution. The row of cabins along the shore, with the conven­tional evergreen trees behind, would no doubt typify the new homes they were carving from the boundless forests of the Province. Perhaps I interpret these features too literally, or otherwise wrongly, and if so, I hope some reader will correct me. There is some­ thing about this picture, perhaps something mournful in the droop of the sombre trees, perhaps something lonely in the presence of the solitary ship, perhaps something sad in the humbleness of the tiny cabins, which brings before me more vividly than does any­ thing else a realization of how our ancestors must have felt, when, on that morning in May, now long ago, turning their backs forever upon their native land, they began to face in exile the hardships of life in an unsubdued wilderness. This seal was used through the reign of King George III., but on the ascent of his successor, a new one was of course prepared, inscribed with Georgius quartus, but in design like the former. It was, however, made from new dies, and differs in several details from the older, notably in the ship. In the older seal the vessel is square rigged on all the masts, and has all the sails furled except the fore and main topsails, which are filled aback, to symbolize, as I suppose, that the vessel has reached her haven and is, at anchor. In the later seal the vessel has a spanker on the mizzen-mast, while her fore, main and mizzen topsails are all set and drawing ahead, a much less