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of good quality for strength and softness, and that of a hard- 

 er nature, which contained less carbon, is readily converted 

 into malleable iron, which is considered equal to the best of 

 this description, made in the United States. The pure iron 

 has also been converted into blistered steel, which on trial, 

 was found equally useful, for all the purposes to which the 

 foreign article had been applied. Should the flattering pros- 

 pects continue, which now stimulate the exertions of the en- 

 terprising projectors of the establishment at Clement's, it is 

 presumed that iron, in its various branches, will be extensive- 

 ly manufactured at this place, and thus supply the home con- 

 sumption of the country. 



The fossil remains contained in this ore, are by no means 

 so numerous as in that of Nictau, and Pictou ; but besides 

 their impressions, we have other, and more interesting traces 

 of them, which strongly indicate the effects of heat, upon 

 the fleshy part of their substance, in decomposing and con- 

 verting it into the substances, which are now presented in 

 this ore. We shall allude to this more particularly, after sta- 

 ling the fossils which we recognized in the ore. They are tere- 

 bratuhtes, tellenites and trilobites. Of the latter we obtain- 

 ed one, of which, only the body is presented, measuring two 

 and a half inches in length. Its three lobes are very dis- 

 tinct and prominent, consisting of twelve transverse slips or 

 lows, which gradually diminish to the lower extremity. The 

 length of the first slip of the series being equal to that of 

 the whole body of the fossil ; its form instead of being as 

 usual oblong and ovate, is conical. 



In breaking masses of this ore, the fracture frequently 

 crosses the fossil, and lays open its inner surface, which is 

 covered by a very thin and brilliant bluish green, i)otryoidal 

 crust of the phosphate of iron. It sometimes also presents 

 this substance crystallized, in beautiful intersecting, and di- 

 vergent plates or laminae, which are translucent and of a 

 deep blue or bluish green colour. In many cases, the cavity 

 left in the ore by the decomposition or disappearance of the 

 internal part of the fossil, is entirely filled up with a yellow, 

 friable carbonate of iron, having intermixed with it a few 

 bluish spots of the phosphate. At other times the crustace- 

 ous part of the fossil is converted into the carbonate of iron 

 which shows distinctly the original superficial appearance of 

 the shelly covering. In fact, wherever in this ore, the re- 

 mains of a fossil are found, we have one or both of these 



