240 PROCEEDINGS OP THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



colle Fisio ; tres boves facito Marti Grabovie pro colle Fisio, sues 

 lactentes tres facito Fiso sancio pio colle Fisio :— such considerations 

 are of themselves a jjriori not very acceptable, and do not deserve to 

 be regarded as offering a satisfactory -explanation of a serious docu- 

 ment. The honest contention must be strengthened as it can be, and 

 is, by any amount of cumulative evidence, that such an interpreta- 

 tion as Breal has advanced, intangible and chimerical in many of its 

 forms and explanations, must be regarded as altogether inferior to 

 the historical interpretation of which a somewhat full summary has 

 been given. 



Note : — It has not been found possible to print in exteiiso the decipher- 

 ment of the Umbrian Inscriptions, together with the Geographical and 

 Ethnological notes, that are appended, all of which are in readiness. 



GEOLOGICAL AND MINING SECTION. 



A Committee of the Geological and Mining Section, consisting of 

 Wm. Hamilton Merritt, F.G.S., Chairman; Archibald Blue, Secre- 

 tary ; Dr. P. H. Bryce, Mr. John Notman and Mr. R. W. Phipps, 

 have made a Report on the Mining Industi'ies of Canada, which 

 states : 



1. That as shown by successive annual reports of the Geological 

 Survey, extending over a period of more than forty years, the known 

 mineral resources of our country are a vast and valuable possession. 

 In precious metals there is reason to believe that we have rich occur- 

 rences of gold and silver ; while in the economic minerals the coun- 

 try is pre-eminently rich in iron, copper, gypsum, apatite and coal. 

 We have also manganese, barytes, antimony, plumbago, asbestus, 

 salt, petroleum, slates, building stone, marbles, limes, cements, min- 

 eral pigments and minerals applicable to the fine arts in proved 

 abundance. 



The recent discoveries of copper and gold in the vicinity of Sud- 

 bury, of new silver lodes in the district of Port Arthur, of anthracite 

 and bituminous coals on the eastei-n slope of the Rocky Mountains, 

 as well as various new discoveries of gold, silver, lead and coal 

 in the heart of British Columbia, now accessible by means of the Can- 

 adian Pacific Railway, encourage the hope that a systematic survey 

 of the country will reveal stores of vast extent and richness, the 

 existence or locality of which is not now suspected. 



