CHAPTER VIII. 



On Minerals. 



IT may be necessary to say something on mi- 

 nerals, in the pursuit of which the greater part 

 of my life has been employed. A traveller who 

 is unacquainted with metals, should procure a 

 few in a rough state, and, by comparison, he 

 would soon know how to discriminate one from 

 the other. A small book which the author pub- 

 lished, called ** Familiar Lessons on MrsEiu- 

 LOGY," with colored plates, would greatly faci- 

 litate his inquiries, and cannot be too strongly 



