of ee metal have been found on the River Metgermet, flowing into the 
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which discharges into the Chaudiére, opposite the Famine, on the Seig- 
nory of Aubert Gallion, being on the twenty-second lot of the domaine, 
“where the metal was first observed by Mr. Fortier, one of the censitaires, 
in a narrow ravine with steep precipices of clay slate on each side ; it 
occurs in the clefts of the slate constituting the bed of the stream, and 
in the clay and gravel immediately on the top of the rock, mingled with 
magnetic and chromic iron ; the quantity of gravel at the spot is but small 
in consequence of the narrowness of the ravine, through which the water 
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is crossed by the brook next below the previous stream. Mr. Hunt 
ae found traces of it in the gravel at the foot of the precipice of serpentine, 
just below the fall of the Guillaume River, where it was associated with’ 
grains of magnetic and chromic iron, as well as of rutile and ilmenite. 
He also discovered it about a mile beldw the Great Fail on the Bras, in 
similar gravel lying close‘on clay slate, where it could not be far re- 
These five localities, as well as that of the Touffe des Pins above 
‘ ence the Ruiesesu Lessard, and the Ruisseau du Lac or du Moulin, 
n both of which particles have ‘been met with, are all included in an 
ing, of about sixty or eighty square miles, with a breadth of about ten 
ar across the stratification, and I have been informed that traces of 
 Rnibic du Loup, about fifteen miles still farther to the south-east than 
the Riviére a la Famine. 
“The Report of Mr. T. S. Hunt, Chemist and Mineralogist to the Sur- 
vey, is occupied principally with analyses of soils and mineral springs 
which may be noticed at len aa in igre gb mber. 
of Darien and the. Gulf of San Miguel umerous rivers flow info the 
principal stream is the river Santa Maria, forty miles long, and falling 
into the Gulf of San.Miguel, “dobstrucled by sand-banks or bars 
estates are still oecupi y the Spanish, but most of the old towns 
and villages and forts: have n long since deserted. About eight 
miles up the river Santa Maria (or Tuyra) is the village of pe ra 
with a corregidor, and’ about 100 inhabitants, mostly Sambos and Ne- 
groes ; Mr. Hossack, a Scot, and Don Pepe, a Portuguese, are sete 
tly, ss 
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rcely 100, and the large fort is in good condition, 
The. largest vessels can ascend nearly to the Chuquan 
of the river Tuyra, a few miles below Yavisa, and up 4 
extends. This country has been the scone of succe 
