New-York daily tribune., 1857-08-24
ASSOCIATION FOR THE do
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
THE EXCURSION
From Our Own Reporter.

From Our Own Reporter
MONTREAL, Friday, August q, 1857.
The Local Committee took the conduct Of the Asso-
citation into their hands Yesterday and gave it, men,
be,s sn dea Of St. Lawrence rocks, rapids, bridges
and hospitality.
special train took all whose desire TO see tubular
bridge conquered their reluctance to start at O'Clock
or a rainy morning over the Grand Trunk Road to St.
Apne's. The train entered the bridge, satisfied the
curiosity Of its two dozen passengers, and returned
part Of the way TO meet the steamboat Champion,
which had started some half an hour later However
that steamer was aground with two or three hundred
op board, ard the De Salabery, the train to meet
which did OF leave Montreal until q o'clock, came up
and took them back to the bridge to get an outside
view. Then both steamers went down the river
the Champion having got of-and across st.
Louis Lake 10 the mouth Of the Beauharnos
Canal When we landed, there was visiting be-
tween the steamers, ana the geoloSsts posted
off to find some specimens Of very queer ios.
sil track rear by in the Potsdam sandstone. These
fossils are supposed by many to be the tracks OF tur
ties. but DR.. Wyman, who has been nauraiziug
lately in Demersra says that they are the same as
tracks LOW made there by an odd fih with loog bony
fms by the aid of which he drags himself about on the
sand At ali events they the tracks Of vertebrate
animals ard this completes the four grand divisions Of
animated nature in the eaIest fosil-bearng rock,
result which is supposed TO complete the demolition Of
the development theory. The De Salaberry pro-
cleded to another village in Beaubarrois and another
geological expedition was sen. out, which returned
rather tardiy with specimens of the same tracks
Then the boats cane back TO Montreal the Champion
directly and the smaller boat around Nuns Island
through the narrow canallke mouths of the Chateau
cay, where canoes and one-roomed log-cabins
are in universal use, and where a the men
wear bonnets and all the women wear hats.
This is in the DE Salsbery district. The owner of
one boat promised the electors of thi, dist,t that if
they would return him to the Provincial Parliament
he would build steamboat and name it in their honor
and the bargain was contaminated.
During the return plentiful oollatons were served
on both boats. On the Champion especially, great
many toas,s were drank from that to the Queen to that
to the landlord of one of the principal hotels. The
bopors being tossed backward aud forward pretty
equally between Canada and the United Sates, DR..
Steiner of Baltimore presented Prof Swallow with an
ancient currycomb and some very laughter-provoking
remarks latter dinner ard the Missouran Professor,
sol isant half horse and half alligator accepted it as
at least half useful in speech eminenty appropriate
TO the occasion. The Lachine Rapids put an end to
the speeches and in good time the party reached the
city again.
This morning the exodus is ereat-Home, Niagara,
Quebec and Saratoga are the main points of disPer-
sion. We, too, are dispersed.