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162. Mesolite— Is fouud at Tort Georgo, and is also said to bo very al>uudant iu the 

 North Mouutains, Annapolis county, province of Nova Scotia. Analyses, H. How, 

 Am. Joiirn. Sci., 2 scr., vol. xxvi, p. 32, 1858. 



163. Meteoric Iron — A specimen of meteoric iron, weighing 370 pounds, was found, iu 

 1854, on the surface of the ground, in the township of Madoc, Hastings county, 

 province of Ontario. Its shape is rudely rectangular and flattened on ouc side. The 

 surface is irregularly pitted, and coated with a film of dark oxide. The iron is malle- 

 able, and highly crystalline in texture. A polished surface Avheu etched by an acid 

 exhibits the so-called Widmannstiidt's figures. It contains 6'35 per cent, of nickel ; 

 small amounts of the phosphide of iron and nickel (Schreibersite) are disseminated 

 through it, and in making a section of it, rounded masses of magnetic sulphide of 

 iron (troiliteV) were met with. Eesults of its examination by Dr. T. S. Hunt, Geol. 

 Can., 1863, p. 508. 



164. Micaceous Iron-ore — Is found in veins in the Cobequid Hills of Londonderry 

 (Colchester Co.) : constitutes an important deposit on the west side of the East Eiver 

 (Pictou Co.) : is met with on Salmon River, at Melrose, Manchester, and Roman's 

 Valley in Guysborough county, and at St. Peters, Richmond coi^nty, province of 

 Nova Scotia. Mingled with A^ariable amounts of qiiartz and chlorite, it constitutes 

 beds of a schistose rock in the townships of St. Armand (Missisquoi Co.), Brome and 

 Sutton (Brome Co.) ; occurs in small beds in the township of Bristol (Pontiac Co.), and 

 is also met with in the townships of Templeton and Hull (Ottawa Co.), and elsewhere 

 in the province of Quebec. Forms small beds in Potsdam sandstone iu the townships 

 of Bastard (Leeds Co.), and Ramsay (Lanark Co.), in the province ol Ontario. 



165. Chromiferous Mica — Is found in several localities iu the Eastern Townships of the 

 province of Quebec, Minute scales of it occur in the magnesite of Sntton (Brome 

 Co.), and is has also been observed, in larger plates and imperfect crystals, in a 

 dolomite from Bolton, iu the same county. 



166. MiCROCiiiNE — Is found in large cleavable masses, in association with quartz, musco- 

 vite, albite, etc., constituting a coarse pegmatite vein in the township of Villeneuve, 

 Ottawa county, province of Quebec. 



167. MiLLERiTE — Is met with in small grains and prismatic crystals, together with 

 minute grains and crystals of a bright green chromiferous garnet, disseminated 

 through a white cleavable calcite, in a vein on the east side of Brompton Lake, in the 

 township of Orl'ord (Sherbrooke Co.), province of Quebec. 



168. Mineral. Coal — See under " Anthracite, " " Bituminous coal," " Caunel coal, " 

 " Lignite." 



Analyses, E. Hartley, Rep. Geol. Can., 1866-69, pp. 365-447— T. S. Hunt, ib., 1871-72, 

 p. !t8— B. J. Harrington, ib., 1872-73,pp. 76-81 ; ib., 1873-74, p. 63 ; ib., 1876-77, pp. 

 HJ6-ilO—G. C. Hoffmann, ib., 1873-74, pp. 90-93 and 188-191 ; ib., 1875-76, p. 423, 

 ib., 1879-80, pp. 8-14 ii. ; ib., 1882-84, pp. 1-44 M. ; Ann. Rep. Geol. Can., 1885, pp. 

 1-11 M. ; ib., 1887-88, pp. 5-20 t. 



169. Mineral Resin — Is not irnfrcquently very freely disseminated through some of the 

 coals and lignites of the North-west Territory, iu the form of small flattened grains 

 and nodules of a yellow, yellowish- brown or browu color. The nodules do not, 

 generally speaking, exceed a-quarter of an inch in diameter, but occasionally some of 



