182 THE ODAHWAH INDIAN LANGUAGE. 
Zine Blende:—This substance varies in its aspect from sub-metallic 
to vitreo-resinous. The more metallic-looking specimens are dark- 
brown, black, brownish-yellow or brownish-red, with yellowish or 
reddish-brown streak, and high lustre. Found chiefly in lammellar 
and small irregular masses, and in more or less obscure crystals of the 
Monometric system. H.3.5-4.0; sp. gr. 3.9-4.2. Infusible. One 
hundred parts contain: sulphur 33, zine 67. Zine Blende, although 
so abundant in many countries, can scarcely be called an ore of zinc : 
the attempts to employ it for the extraction of the metal, having 
hitherto proved of very partial success. It may be used however, 
when ground to powder, as the basis of a wash or paint for frame 
buildings and wood-work generally. In Canada, Zine Blende occurs 
in some abundance at Prince’s Mine on Spar Island, and at Maimanse, 
Lake Superior, with copper ores, galena, &c. Also in small quantities 
with galena, in the townships of Lansdowne, Bedford, &c., (see under 
galena, above); and in the eastern metamorphic district of the Chau- 
diére Valley. The Blende of this latter locality (seigniories of Vau- 
dreuil and St. George, Beauce Co.,) has been shewn by Mr. Sterry 
Hunt of the Geological Survey, to be slightly auriferous. 
(To be continued.) 
REMARKS ON THE PAPER HEADED “ THE ODAHWAH 
INDIAN LANGUAGE,’ PUBLISHED IN THE CANA- 
DIAN JOURNAL FOR NOVEMBER, 1858. 
BY F. ASSIKINACK. 
Read before the Canadian Institute, 14th January, 1860. 
The paper which appeared in the Canadian Journal for November, 
1858, headed “The Odahwah Indian Language,” was intended to 
give some particulars relating to the language of the Odahwahs. 
Although the Odahwahs and Ojibwas may be considered to speak 
one common language, they, nevertheless, differ in several respects ; 
and in many cases these-distinctions are scarcely perceptible in 
common conversation, and any one who is not well acquainted with 
