From The, Montreal Herald.
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perfectly evident, that this fire, (at airanicf) like
that which lately ragged in Upper and Low Canada


have been occasoned by the rays IF the Sun, operating
on some inammabe matter the surface of earh du
ring an unparalleled hot and dry In this prov.
ince, We are informed that in places the ubus
bu! that the earth ITSELF especially where mossy particles
existed burned the depth Of two feet, and in seye
raj instances 10 that of four feet


There indeed, many portions Of the world where
the heat is much more intense than it the
mer in Canada but question whether Of con-
tnen OF America, there be spot earth covered with
much combustble matter there 10 be found in hesa
regions