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that wells in this region niay be made to yield satis- 

 factory returns. 



The narrow limits assigned to the writer of this 

 essay, which he has prepared at the request of the 

 Minister of Agriculture, have permitted nothing more 

 than a notice of some of the more important mineral 

 resources of the province ; and the reader who may 

 be desirous of farther information upon these sub- 

 jects, and also of more detailed chemical descriptions 

 and analyses of the soils of the country, is referred 

 to the work already indicated as the source of the 

 information here given, viz the GEOLOGY OF CANADA. 



T. STERRY HUNT, 



