Brunswick," sent out from England by Lord Sydney, Secretary of State, to Governor Carleton, on Feb. 25, 1785, as we learn from a note in the Archives Report for 1895 (N.B. page 3). This seal, as was customary in those days, was impressed upon a thick disk of wax attached to its document by a band of tape. Upon the obverse side it bore the British Coat of Arms with the inscription Georgius Tertius dei gratia britanniarum rex fidei defensor, (George the Third, by the Grace of God King of the British Defender of the Faith). Upon the reverse it was engraved as shown upon the following cut, which is from a tracing of a photograph of an original, reduced to one-half the true size:
I have tried, but so far in vain, to obtain through the Herald's College, and also through the office of the Colonial Secretary, the original heraldic designation or description of this seal, wishing it partly because of its intrinsic interest, and partly in the hope that it would throw some light upon the precise meaning of the different features, and hence upon the reasons for
