Mineralogy and Geology of apart of Nova Scotia, 157 
‘On the estate of Alexander Grant, we observed, in the 
bed of a brook proceeding from the forest, a section of red 
sandstone and shale, including a bed of red and brown he- 
matitic iron omy twenty feet wide, and of unknown thickness, 
it not having as yet been explored for practical purposes 
This hematite exhibits all the varieties of imitative form 
usually assumed by this ore, and resembles precisely those 
beautiful specimens brought from the Salisbury mines in 
Connecticut which so frequently adorn mineralogical cabi- 
nets. It occurs botryoidal, and tasineuinal and sometimes 
possesses a brilliant, seers surface, consisting of small 
Myaied 5 in the cavities of the hematite, but more fre- 
quently is disseminated in radiating acicular fibres or distinct 
concretions through the mass. Its color is between lead 
and steel grey, and it possesses a high metallic brilliancy, 
which is not tarnished by exposure to air and moisture. The 
geodes in the hematite are frequently occupied by crystals of 
arragonite, in six-sided prisms, and also sulphate of barytes 
in compressed or tabular erystals, usu noel of a pure white col- 
or, but very loosely atte matrix, or they are 
sometimes completely isolated. Several masses of 
structure, composed entirely of this subst also 
found in the soil near this brook. Whether the manganese, 
intermixed with this ore, will prove injurious to the iron in 
the operation of smelting it, or not, is, we thin 
of importance to those interested in the establishment erect- 
ing at New Glasgow for working it extensively, or as is con- 
templated with the coke or carbonaceous base formed by 
the destructive distillation of bituminous coal, which is now 
exclusively employed in England, in the reduction of iron 
in that this su 
the metallic state or not, so as to combine chemically with 
the iron, must nevertheless have an injurious effect in 
smelting farnace ; for in consequence of its existing in the 
state of per oxide, a a portion of heat and carbon is ta- 
A bed of buff colored limestone occurs in the sandstone 
near the hematite locality, and will prove a valuable fluxing 
