380 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 



rich in crystalline forms ; and, with few exceptions, furnish 

 ed its late proprietor with the numerous varieties of crystals, 

 which are figured in the last edition of his mineralogy, as 

 well as the plates accompanying his papers on the oxide of 

 tin, red oxide of copper, &c. published in the Transactions 

 of the Geological Society. 



"Of British, and more especially of Cornish, minerals, the 

 cabinet contains a large number of rare and valuable spe- 

 cimens; amongst which may be particularly enumerated the 

 fluates of lime, the native and red oxide of copper, the ar- 

 seniates and phosphates of copper, the oxide of tin, and ma- 

 ny others; it contains, likewise, many very valuable foreign 

 Specimens — as a reference to the catalogue will show. 



" The collection is now offered to the public, just as it was 

 left at the decease of its late proprietor ; and, together with 

 a considerable crystallographical cabinet, will be sold entire." 



The contents of this uncommonly fine and rare cabinet 

 are contained, as we perceive by the catalogue, in one hun- 

 dred drawers. The specimens referred to and figured in the 

 authors excellent work on mineralogy, have numbers attach- 

 ed to them corresponding with the figures. Such a cabinet, 

 having such a relation to one of the best standard works on 

 the science of which it treats, will doubtless claim the atten- 

 tion of scientific institutions and amateurs of natural history. 



24. Canada. — We are informed, that under the direction 

 of Col. Bouchette, of Quebec, so well known as the author 

 of a splendid geographical and statistical work and map, 

 which has been some years before the world, there will be 

 soon published. Topographical Maps of the province of 

 Lower Canada, exhibiting by districts the divisions and sub- 

 divisions, local ameliorations, and actual state of the settle- 

 ments of the colony, preceded by a general map of the Brit- 

 ish North American provinces. 



This work is to be entirely of a public nature, and so cal- 

 culated, from the scale of its construction, and the mode of 

 its engraving, as to admit of future correction and ameliora- 

 tion. The growth of a new country is naturally rapid, and 

 the map, which to-day portrays it, with all possible detail, 

 must, in ten years hence, be deficient of that information 

 which might then be sought for. With a view to this object, 

 therefore, has the plan of the proposed topographical maps 

 been formed ; a plan which will, at once, be found compre- 



