26 HOW — ON MINERALOCr OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



remedied by any means, then the coast fishing will return ; if 

 partially remedied then the coast fisheries will only be retarded 

 in their gradual absorption into ocean and bank fishing. The 

 single men, who now each in his own boat takes his own fish, 

 must club into tens, build fishing smacks, and commence ocean 

 fishing. That is to say, capital must come to assist labour. That 

 more fish will be produced, it is probable, but the individual 

 fisherman will sufier. From being a yeoman of the sea, and 

 owning his own boat, he will become the servant of the capital- 

 ist — or the man who puts the most value in the joint stock. 

 For one, I would be sorry to see the Nova Scotian fisherman 

 reduced to the Newfoundland fisherman. The presence of 

 capital has the great and good efiect of tiding over temporary 

 scarcities. It always has its accumulations. But one who is 

 familiar with the half-dozen fishing villages, hanging up as it 

 were on the rocks of our out-harbors, with their tidy kitchens, 

 and neat bed rooms, their well fed children, and well clothed 

 men, their neat boats and nets, and compares it with the state of the 

 oppidan laborer, mechanic or truckman, living usually in one or 

 two rooms of an evil smelling house in a dingy street, must look 

 with concern at any causes that are slowly causing them, to pass 

 away. 



Aet. III. Notes on the Economic Mineralogy of Nova 

 Scotia. By Peof. How, D. C. L., Univej-sity of King's 

 College, Windsor, N. S. Part IV. Gypsum and An- 

 hydrite and the Borates and other Minerals they 

 contain. 



(Read November 4th, 1867.} 



In the present paper I propose to consider the immense 

 deposits of gypsum and anhydrite which have long been of 

 'great economic importance to the Province, and the minerals 

 found in them, some of which, being useful, will add much to 

 the value of tlie plaster quarries, if abundant. The term plaster, 

 just used, being employed locally as the name both of gypsum 

 and anhydrite, I shall avail myself of it occasionally as con- 

 venient, and may mention that gypsum is sulphate of lime with 



