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large quantities in quartzose veins in the township of Marmora (Hastings Co.), and it 

 is also met with in the township of Tudor, in the same county, province of Ontairo. 

 35. AsBESTUS— A more or less delicately fibrous variety of hornblende has been met with 

 in the townships of Templcton and Buckingham (Ottawa Co.), province of Quebec. 

 In the latter townshij^ mountain cork was found in quantity and in masses of 

 considerable size at the Emerald phosphate mine. Mountain leather has also been 

 met with in this township as well as at the Beaver mine in the township of O'Connor, 

 District of Thunder Bay, iu the province of Ontario. The fibrous variety of serpentine, 

 which constitutes alargeproportiou of what is known in commerce as asbestus, occurs 

 in quantity in the Eastern Townships of the province of Quebec— See under 

 " Chrysotile." 



3G. AsPHALTUM— Occurs in the vicinity of Oil Creek, in the southern part of the township 

 of Enniskillcn (Lambton Co.), province of Ontario, where it forms two layers, of a 

 viscid consistency, known as gum-beds, occupying areas of about an acre, each, in 

 extent, and having a thickness varying from a few inches to two feet. Another bed 

 of bitumen, of from two to four inches in thickness, is met with at Petrolia, in the 

 northern part of the same township. The material of this bed, which is more solid 

 than that of those just referred to, and mixed with a good deal of earthy matter, is 

 readily separable into thin layers, which are soft and flexible. Very extensive 

 deposits of a bituminous sand-rock occur for great distances along the banks of the 

 lower Athabasca Kiver, North-west Territory ; these are described in Eep. Geol. Can., 

 1882-84, part CO., and the results of the examination of the material appear in Eep. 

 Geol. Can., 1880-82, p. 3 H. 



ST. AxTGlTE— Well defined crystals of black augite are found imbedded iu the dolerites of 

 Montreal (Hochelaga Co.), Eougemout (Rouville Co.), and Montarville (Chambly Co.) 

 Mountains, in the province of Quebec. Anal., T. S. Hunt, Geol. Can., 1863, p. 468. 



38. AxiNlTE— Is said by Dr. Bigsby to have been found, in fine crystals, lining a cavity in 

 a boulder of primitive rock at Hawkesbury (Prescott Co.), in the province of Ontario. 

 It has been found in xilu by Dr. R. Bell, iu small veins in trap, on the east coast of 

 Hudson Bay, about one mile and a-half south of the mouth of Little "Whale River. 

 Here it occurs, of a purplish-brown color, iu association with epidote, imbedded in a 

 matrix of calcite with a little quartz. 



39. AzuEITE— Has, so far, not been met with iu characteristic specimens, but merely as an 



incrustation on copper-ores, or iu the form of stains and small earthy masses in copper- 

 holding rock. Among the many localities where it has been observed, may be 

 mentioned :— The Prince of "Wales mine, Upton (Bagot Co.), and at the Black River 

 miue — in a drusy calcite, with sulphurets of copper, in the form of small crystals — 

 St. Flavien (Lotbinière Co.), province of Quebec. "With green carbonate of copper at 

 Batchewanung Bay and Prince's mine. Lake Superior, province of Ontario. 



40. Bakite— Occurs, sometimes in very beautiful crystalline masses, in numerous irregular 



veins or pockets in the slates of the East River of the Five Islands (Colchester Co.), 

 Nova Scotia. In a vein cutting Laureutian limestone, in the township of Hull 

 (Ottawa Co.), province of Quebec— and the following localities iu the province of 

 Ontario, viz., the townships of Bathurst and North Burgess (Lanark Co.), McNab 

 (Renfrew Co.) Dummer aud Galway (Peterborough Co.), and Summerville (Victoria 



