480 Rev, Br, JDavies on the 



gravity taken. The quantity employed in eacli case was between 

 one and two grammes, and the analyses were made according to 

 the method used by Rose in his investigations on the gold of the 

 Ural mountains.* 



"An analysis of the Tangier gold, specific gravity 18.95, gave. 



Gold 98-13 



Silver 1*'76 



Copper » * 05 



Iron trace, 



99.94 



"An analysis of Lunenburg gold, specific gravity 18*37, gave. 



Gold 92-04 



Silver 7-76 



Copper '11 



Iron trace. 



99'91 

 "In some specimens of auriferous quartz from Lawrencetown, 

 obtained of Mr. R. G. Fraser of Halifax, I found mispickel, iron 

 pyrites, galena, and magnetite, associated with the gold in the 

 same manner as at the other localities. In one instance a crystal 

 of mispickel had a small particle of gold passing directly through 

 its centre. The specific gravity of the gold from this place was 

 18*60, which would indicate a degree of purity between that of 

 the Tangier and Lunenburg specimens. The quantity obtained 

 was not sufficient for satisfactory analyses." 



ARTICLE XXXI. — On the origin of the name ' Canada.^ By 

 Rev. B. Davies,LL.D., Member of the Council of the Philolo- 

 gical Society of London. 



(Read before the Natural History Society.') 



The name by which the most extensive and valuable Province 

 in British America is called, has a very uncertain, if not strictly un- 

 known, origin. To this fact Dr. Trench, in his popular work on " the 

 Studv of Words" (p. 170, ed. 9th.), calls attention in these terms: 

 " One might anticipate that a name like ' Canada ', given, and 

 within fresh historic times, to a vast territory, would be accounted 



* Reice nach dem Urai, page 406. Berlin, 1842. 



