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 Mineralogy, 
with colored plates, would greatly facilitate his 
inquiries, ‘and cannot be too strongly recom- 
