amygdaloidal trap and never occurs: i n the superinew 
columnar rock ; hence the absurdity of excavated 
pits into the soil, crowning the summit of the precipice — 
ed by these rocks: in search of this metal, since it exists near- 
ly three hundred feet beneath ; this was done by the miners 
gta ng axeibred at this eae nd as it occurs chiefly 
below the level of high water, the shafts would be liable to 
be filled at the periodical influx of the tide, if indeed the 
works were not entirely demolished by the violence of the cur- 
rents. The sanguine expectations excited by the appearance 
of this metal, in a state of purity, must then be disappointed. 
Masses of calcareous spar, and crystals of a ting- 
ed green by the carbonate of copper, and having slender 
filaments of copper enclosed in cpr! in the cavities 
of the amygdaloid which rests on the tr 
On the eastern side of Cape D’Or, = precipice as- 
sumes a concave form, and has eouival the characteristic 
appellation of Horse Shoe Cove. — the pong in the 
stilbite. "The specimens are very prepossessing in appear- 
ance, and would, from that resemblance, be mistaken for the 
psa aac ain of sugar, which adorn the shops of our con- 
fectione 
The stilbite occurs, also, in radiating groups of crystals, 
forming beautiful stelle, which are distributed through the 
eloping masses of 
ar. 
Many other minerals occur at Cape D’Or, but as they are 
such as we have already noticed as occurring at other places, 
