406 MINERALS FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. 



alpbyn came to be styled a bishop. — As to fou, buffoon, the French 

 descendant of phil, — the Abbe Eomain (as quoted iu London Sosiety 

 for December, 1865) thus sharply remarks upon it iu his Poem on 



Chess : 



Au jeu d'echecs tous les peuples ont mis 

 Les animaux communs dans leur pays ; 

 L'Arabe y met le leger dromadaire, 

 Et I'Indien Telephant; quant a nous, 

 Peuple falot, nous y mettons des fous. 



The aspen-suar, the horseman of the Persians, retains his identity 

 ■without material alteration. But the original rofh, ' armed chariot,' 

 Persianized, as we have seen, into riich, a dromedary, has suffered 

 vernacuiarizatiou again ; first in Italian, where it became rocca, 

 * rock ' in the sense of ' fortress on a rock ; ' and secondly, rather 

 barbarously, with ourselves, among whom it goes by the name of 

 rook. — Finally, the beydal, or footsoldier, has reverted, at all events 

 in sound, to a word familiar in the primitive home of Chess, namely, 

 feon. In French it \^ pieton andj5?o?i (iu old French peon, i. e., the 

 Latin pedo as synonymous with pedes, footsoldier) ; and with us, 

 after manipulation in the approved English manner, — paion. 



ON SOME MINERALS FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. 



BY E. J. CHAPMAN, Ph. D. 



PEOI'BSSOK OF MINEEALOGY AND GEOLOGT IN UNIVEESITT COLLEGE, T0E03JT0. 



A recent visit to the north-west shore of Lake Superior enabled me 

 to obtain several minerals of much interest, including two or three 

 species previously unrecognized in Canada. Brief descriptions of these 

 latter, with a few observations on some of the other minerals which 

 occur in this region, are offered in the following notes : — 



1. Native Lead. As a natural product, lead is well-known to be 

 of exceedingly rare occurrence in the simple or metallic state. On 

 this continent — apart from its occurrence in the meteoric iron of Ta- 

 rapaca, in Chili — it has hitherto been noticed only at one spot, namely : 

 in a galena vein, traversing limestone (of unstated geological age), 

 near Zomelahuacan, in the Province of Vera Cruz, in Central Mexico. 

 The specimen, from the locality now under consideration, was obtained 

 by Mr. McIntyre, of Fort William, at a spot near the celebrated Dog- 

 Lake of the Kaministiquia. The lead occurs iu this specimen — the only 



