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posses? OH this subject, the prescribed limits be broken 

 down and the fiehl of research carried into both Provinces. 

 To do so, it is proposed to make use of ail the information 

 •which can be obtained, either from the reports of credible 

 eye witnesses, or from that which is to be found already in 

 the hands of the public* This, joined to what little 

 original matter I may have myself to communicate^ will, it 

 is hoped, as a compilation merit the approbation, as I know 

 it will receive the indulgence of that Society, whose efforts 

 to collect and reduce the ore of intelligence which exists 

 in the country, claim not only the eucouraging notice of 

 its inhabitants, but ihatofthe whole civilized world. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. i- 



I propose to commence this Essay with some general 

 observations upon those ores which are either known to 

 occtir in this country or which have been reported to do 

 so. Among the former iron ores rank first as much on 

 account of the profusion in which they arc distributed over 

 many portions of the two Provinces as because of their 

 superior usefulness to all other ores. 



ORES OF IRON. * 



Seven species of iron ore have been noticed in Canada, 

 viz. the magnetic oxide, specular iron ore, the red oxide, 

 the brown oxide, the argillaceous oxide, the carbonate of 

 iron, (sparry iron ore,) and the sulphuret of iron, (iron 

 pyrites). To these, for the sake of analogy, I am disposed 

 to add an eighth— the carburet of iron, which, indeed, 



* ^'"' ' ' apo I prptontprl a pnppr to thf im nihor* of llii> 1 iti-rnrv 



^Od 111 ■< illy, •iilillid " Loialilift. o| CuiiiKltuii MiiiiraK," which 



Ihry iliil iiiL till li>iiii>r to liavc |iiililis|ii'(l j (ronj tlii«, tillier in form or »ub- 

 •Iknce, my priiicipulvxiracu will be taken. 



