170 American Cinnabar and Native Lead. 
10. American Cinnabar and Native Lead. 
Extract of a letter from B. F. Sricxyey, Esq. dated Port 
Lawrence, Michigan J ortionys Mouth of the Miami id 
the Lakes, June 17, 1819 
Remark.—In Vol. [. page 433, mention is made of Amer- 
ican Cinnabar and native Lead. I have procured from Mr. 
Stickne . 8. Agent, for Indian affairs a statement of 
facts. telaGva to: a subject, which, so far as regards the cin- 
nabar, i is sO Important, and.as regards the phiine lead, is so 
curious, that I have not been w illing to abridge the state- 
ment. Some of the mercurial sand which Mr. Stickney 
Sincd in his letter was puloraunatgly lost, so that I have 
never seen a specien.— 
Cinnabar. 
It is true, that there is in this vicinity, a large diges ict of 
country abounding with sulphuret of Mereury, | more or less 
interspersed through the soil, in the state of a black and ved 
cinnabarine sand, and in one place, the genuine red cinna- 
bar occurs in ihe, form of an impalpable pow der or in sma. 
poy and grains, interspersed in banks of clay. This is 
: mouth of the Vermilion river, discharging itself in- 
to oy Lake Erie, about eighty miles so uth cast of this place. 
From the mouth of the Vermilion, round the whole shore 
of the western end of Lake Erie, on the shores of Detroit 
river, Lakes St. Clair, Huron, and Michigan, the banks are 
streaked with small gr of this black and red sand of Cin- 
the ore of mercury, to find a joa level, in ronformity i 
its much greater specific gravity. 
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