28 HOW ON MINERALOGY OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



Quantity and Value of Gypsum Exported from Nova Scotia in 

 years ending 30th September. 



'S'car. Tons of 2240 lb. Value in Dollars. 



1854 87288 74936 



1855 95301 80^75 



1856 72210 fil485 



1857 (Windsor only, 9 months,) . . 33862 1 1050 



1858 (Estimated amount,) 86291 69015 



1859 " " 109243 b7395 



I860 105431 85936 



1»61 (Estimated amount,) ^ 51013 40811 



1862 " " S8031 30425 



1863 46739 30625 



1864 58601 43167 



1865 56155 45088 



1866 77091 63611 



1867 103426 88486 



Totals 1020677 812904 



From the first of the foregoiug tables it is obvious that Hants 

 ■was in 1860 the chief ofypsnm raising county, it is so still and 

 Windsor is its principal port of shipment. In fact b}'' far the 

 largest quantity of the rock is quarried at Windsor or in its 

 neighbourhood, where operations have been carried on some 

 eighty or ninety years, and from 1833 to 1867 there were ex- 

 ported from Windsor not less than 1,404,376 tons of 2240 lb., 

 of the value of 1,031,154 dollars. During the late American 

 War the trade was much depressed, last year, however, it had 

 to a great extent revived, and there were 



Exported from the County of Hants, JSf. 8., of Gypsum, from 

 Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st, 1867, from the following 



Ports. Tons of 2240 lb. Valne in Dollars. 



Hantsport 9420 9112 



Maitland (9 months) 2440 1708 



Walton 9845 7384 



Cheverie (chiefly hard plaster) 14799 8190 



Windsor 63655 54106 



Total 100159 80500 



As regards Windsor the quantity just given has never been 

 exceeded by a year's exportation ; the price of gypsum here is 

 on the average 90 cents a ton, shipped, at other places in the 

 province the value is rliftereut from various causes. On the 



