On Metallic .Minerals. 375 



It scratches glass easily, hut yiehls to the knife j a light 

 grey streak ; powder, grey and harsh to the touch ; specific 

 gravity, 3-1. In the interior flame of the hlow-pipe it 

 rounds into a shining green, glohule, hut this depends upon 

 the size of the fragment, for if it he larger tlian it ouglit to 

 be, as large as a pepper corn for instance, (a favorite term 

 with mineralogists, the ahsurdity of which has hcen 

 exposed by Griflin,) it will turn brown at the extremity, 

 but scarcely round at all ; on the contrary if a minute fibre 

 be employed it will form a greenish or yellowish glass, with 

 intumescence, and this observation applies in substance to 

 many other minerals. 



It api)ears to b<; characteristic of epidote that the portion 

 of the essay in the exterior flame does not lose its colour.— 

 Could its colouring principle be extracted it would proba- 

 bly therefore form a very permanent j)igment. Iron pvrites 

 is much mixed up with this epidote. 



Kounrn ore bko. 



Beyond the last deposit on a Mcstern course at the dis- 

 tance of about four miles by land, (the water communication 

 being circuitous and interrupted by two small raj)ids,) there 

 is another large hcd of magnetic ore situated on Belmont 

 Lake. Having neither visited this place nor seen anv of 

 its ores, I can say nothing further respecting it. 



Firm ORE BED. 



Due west of the Alarmora works, at the distance of three 

 miles, and on the hanks of a branch oftheAhtira river is 

 another bed commonly called " Fosters Ore lied." This 

 deposit has hern worked and a considerable (piantity of ore 

 taken from it. I cannot say that nujch more remains, 

 1)CCHUSC it ajjpeared to inc nearly exhausted, but Mr. Mana« 



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