CHAPTER VIII. 



On Minerals. 



IT may be necessary to say something on mi- 

 nerals, in the pursuit of which the greater part 

 of my life has been employed. A traveller who 

 is unacquainted with metals, should procure a 

 few in a rough state, and, by comparison, he 

 would soon know how to discriminate one from 

 the other A small book which the author pub- 

 lished, called Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy, 

 with colored plates, would greatly facilitate his 

 inquiries, and cannot be too strongly recom- 



