“I fancy I bear the nearest resemblance to a scarecrow. What with hair matted with spruce gum, a beard three months old . . . , a pair of cracked spectacles, a red flannel shirt, a waistcoat with patches on the pocket where some sulphuric acid that I carry in a small vial . . . had leaked through, a jacket of moleskin shining with grease, trousers patched in one leg in four places and with a burnt hole in the other leg.”
— Sir William Logan, founding director of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1852, explains why his physical appearance frightened a farmer’s children.
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