Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. 23h 
summit of which only is visible at the surface, the rest being 
under ground. Also, near the mouth of Bear river, sulphu- 
ret of iron, forming a wide bed in clay slate, extending back 
into the forest to the distance of three miles; its real val- 
ue, however, is not at present known to the inhabitants, 
though it undoubtedly will, before many years, afford an 
iron. 
Between Bear river and Digby, fragments of brown and 
red hematite have been found, but as yet only in small quan- 
tities ; it is highly probable, however, to judge from the ap- 
arance the neighbouring land, that an extensive de- 
posit of these ores does somewhere exist. ; aa 
At Bridgetown, on the Annapolis river, gigantic quartz 
erystals have been found in alluvial soil. Within two ye 
past, anumber of broken fragments have been picked up by 
a farmer, during his agricultural labour, and he informed me 
of alarge lump, as he called it, weighing more than an hun- 
dred pounds, and as clear as glass, having been found. He 
said, however, that his boys, wishing to see the inside of it, 
broke it into pieces and gave it away to travellers, one of 
whom took a specimen to England, where it was afterwards 
cut by the lapidaries into articles for jewellery. I found, im- 
bedded in the soil, a crystal, which measures from its base to 
its terminal point 19 inches, across the base 13 inches, across _ 
each lateral plane 9 inches, and the length of one of the 
terminal planes, unduly extended, is 10 inches. It weighs 
smoky, sometimes passes into straw yellow, and resembles the 
cairngorm stone, brought from Scotland. It receives much 
additional beauty by the long and slender prisms of black 
schorl which traverse its surface in every direction, and even 
penetrate its substance to the depth of several inches. Some 
of these prisms are 3 inches in length, and vary in thick- 
ness from + inch to microscopic. The interior of this erys- 
tal shows to great advantage, by placing it in a situation 
granite rocks. 
