106 Prof. Jameson on the Geological Condition, Sfc. 



10. That the red sandstone of Possession Bay, &c, renders it 

 probable that rock-salt may occur in that quarter. 



11. That, although no new metalliferous compounds have oc- 

 curred to gratify the curiosity of the mineralogist, yet the re- 

 gions explored by Captain Parry have afforded various interest- 

 ing and highly useful ones, such as octahedral or magnetic iron- 

 ore, rhomboidal or red iron-ore, prismatic or brown iron-ore, 

 and prismatic chrome-ore, or chromate of iron ; also the com- 

 mon ore of copper, or copper pyrites ; molybdena glance, or 

 sulphuret of molybdena ; ore of titanium ; and that interesting 

 and valuable mineral, graphite or black lead. 



1% That the gems^ the most valued and most beautiful of mi- 

 neral substances, are not wanting in the Arctic Regions visited by 

 the Expeditions, is proved by the great abundance of the preci- 

 ous garnet, which we doubt not will be found, on more particu- 

 lar examination of the primitive rocks, to present all the beauti- 

 ful colours and elegant forms for which it is so much admired. 

 Rock-crystal, another of the gems, was met with, and also beryl 

 and zircon. 



1 3. That these newly-discovered lands exhibit the same ge- 

 neral geognostical arrangements as occur in all other extensive 

 tracts of country hitherto examined by the naturalist ; a fact 

 which strengthens that opinion which maintains that the grand 

 features of nature, in the mineral kingdom, are every where si- 

 milar, and, consequently, that the same general agencies must 

 have prevailed generally during the formation of the solid mass 

 of the earth. 



14. Lastly, That the apparent irregularities which, at first 

 sight, present themselves to our attention, in the grand arrange- 

 ments in the mineral kingdom, are the offspring of our own 

 feeble powers of observation, and disappear when the phenome- 

 na are examined in all their relations. It is then, indeed, that 

 the mind obtains those enduring and sublime views of the Deity, 

 which, in geology, rewarci the patient observer, raise one of the 

 most beautiful and interesting departments of natural science to 

 its true rank, and prove that its relations connect, as it were, in 

 the scale of magnitude, the phenomena of the earth with those 

 more extensive arrangements presented to our intelligence in the 

 planetary system, and in the grand frame- work of the universe 

 itself. 



