240 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



colle Fisio ; tres boves facito Marti Grabovie pro colle Fisio, sues 

 lactentes tres facito Fiso saucio \no colle Fisio : — such considerations 

 are of themselves a priori, not very acceptable, and do not deserve to 

 be regarded as offering a satisfactory explanation of a serious docu- 

 ment. The honest contention must be stj-engthened as it can be, and 

 is, by any amount of cumulative evidence, that such an interpreta 

 tion as Br^al has advanced, intangible and chimerical in many of its 

 forms and explanations, must be regaj'ded as altogether inferior to 

 the historical interpretation of which a somewhat full summary has 

 been given. 



Note : — It has not been found possible to print in extenso tlie decipher- 

 ment of the Umbrian Inscriptions, together with the Geographical and 

 Ethnological notes, that are appended, all of which are in readiness. 



GEOLOGICAL AND MINING SECTION. 



A Committee of the Geological and Mining Section, consisting of 

 Wm. Hamilton Merritt, F.G.S., Chairman ; Archibald Blue, Secre- 

 tary ; Dr. P. H. Bryce, Mr. John Notman and Mr. B. W. Phipps, 

 have made a Beport on the Mining Industries of Canada, which 

 states : 



1. That as shown by successive annual reports of the Geological 

 Survey, extending over a period of more than forty years, the known 

 mineral resources of our country are a vast and valuable possession. 

 In precious metals there is reason to believe that we have rich occur- 

 rences of gold and silver ; while in the economic minerals the coun- 

 try is pi-e-eminently rich in iron, copper, gypsum, apatite and coal. 

 We have also manganese, barytes, antimony, plumbago, asbestus, 

 salt, petroleum, slates, building stone, marbles, limes, cements, min- 

 eral pigments and minerals applicable to the fine arts in proved 

 abundance. 



The recent discoveries of copper and gold in the vicinity of Sud- 

 bury, of new silver lodes in the district of Port Arthur, of anthracite 

 and bituminous ,coals on the eastern slope of the Bocky Mountains, 

 as well as various new discoveries of gold, silver, lead and coal 

 in the heart of British Columbia, now accessible by means of the Can- 

 adian Pacific Bail way, encourage the hope that a systematic survey 

 of the country will reveal stores of vast extent and richness, the 

 existence or locality of which is not now suspected. 



