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Professor Chapman, Toronto University, mentions that this remark- 

 able Conglomerate occurs in Situ, north of Lake Huron. Well, 

 to-day this ancient traveller finds a resting place at last in the 

 cabinet of another tramp, perhaps less appreciated. 



The above-named gentleman published a very useful work 

 some years ago, entitled, " A Popular Exposition of the Minerals 

 and Geology of Canada." The student will find the later (corrected 

 edition) useful. Dana's Mineralogy, an excellent work for more 

 advanced students of the science, is, I am told, universally used as 

 the text book in the leading universities of this continent. The 

 gifted author's researches seem simply marvellous — they were not 

 confined to America. Every country on the face of our globe con- 

 tributed its natural mineral treasures to enrich the pages of nature's 

 famous historian. 



How applicable, although not addressed to Dana by Longfellow, 

 are the words of the invitation : 



" Come wander with me, she said, 

 Into regions yet untrod, 

 And mark what is still unread 

 In the manuscripts of God ; 

 So he wandered away and away 

 With Nature, the dear old nurse, 

 Who sang to him night and day 

 The song of the Universe." 



As regards the localities of minerals, it is absolutely necessary 

 for the young collector to possess some little knowledge of what 

 scientists call Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary rocks (the 

 latter alone are represented in situ in this part of Ontario) ; the cavi- 

 ties in the other two are frequently rich in minerals. It would be 

 advantageous also to possess a few characteristic fossils of the various 

 formations known to geologists. We often learn, for instance, that 

 gold has been found in a quartz vein running through rocks of a 

 certain age. We may be enabled to discover it in other localities on 

 finding the organic remains to correspond with the named speci- 

 mens in our possession. Men known as practical miners (not mining 

 engineers), often know but little respecting the dip of the rocks, the 

 direction of metal-bearing veins, etc. We feel how hopeless a task 

 it is, however, to endeavor to convince the general public in Canada 

 to the contrary. Thousands of dollars have already been buried 



