As to the appearance of this seal, all will agree, I believe, that both its general plan and the details of its early English design are appropriate, tasteful and pleasing.
(Note, inserted April 2nd.)
I have received from the Colonial Office, through the courtesy of the Honorable Colonial Secretary, the official descriptions both of the Great Seal of 1785 and of the Coat-of-arms of 1868. The former reads as follows:
"Engraven on the one side with a Representation of a Ship sailing up a river on the Borders of which is a new settlement with lbfty Pines on each Side destined to Naval purposes, with this motto, Spem reduxit, and this Inscription round the Circumference Sigill, Provinciae, Nov: Bruns:"
The description of the coat-of-arms reads thus:
"Or on Waves a Lymphad or Ancient Galley with oars in action proper on a chief gules a Lion passant guardant, Or."
3. The Provincial Flag.
While there is of course no New Brunswick flag, there is something approaching it in the official flag of the Lieutenant Governor, adopted within a few years. It is the Union Jack with the Coat of Arms of New Brunswick in the center.
4. The Provincial Color.
There is no recognized provincial color. But if we inquire whether there is any one more appropriate than another, we should doubtless be most likely to agree upon red, the color of the flag. But our color might well be a brighter shade appropriate to the brighter clime of the new world, and hence could well be car mine. This color has been used in the printing of the stationery of some of the Government Departments, notably the Crown Land office. The Provincial Color, when adopted, should be taken by the students of the
