130 HOW ON ORES OF MAMGANESE AND THEIR USES. 



the bridge. It is found at Cheverie in nodules on the beach about 

 twenty rods above high water mark, and has been dug on the up- 

 land less than two miles from the beach ; it was formerly shipped, 

 but to what extent does not appear to be known. As it is very 

 hard, and contains in its purest form only about 49 per cent, hhioxide, 

 this ore is not useful for the ordinary applications of manganese; 

 but I was informed by a gentleman from Boston, dealing in these 

 ores, that it answers for a certain secret process better than the rich 

 soft ore, and that something like fifty tons were sold in the United 

 States in 1863, and that it was hoped the demand would increase. 

 Pijrolnsite. — This is the ordinary marketable ore, and is entirely 

 composed of binoxide of manganese. It is so soft as to be easily 

 scratched with a knife to a black powder, and is found in masses 

 which are more or less glistening, and often very beautifully crystal- 

 lized in black lustrous needles and prisms. It is met with near 

 Kentville, King's County ; near Pictou, Pictou County ; near 

 Amherst, Cumberland County; at Musquodoboit, Halifax County; 

 and at Walton, and other places, especially at Teny Cape in 

 the township of Kempt, in Hants County. These two latter 

 are the only localities at which mining operations have been 

 carried on, small quantities of ore having formerly been shipped 

 from Walton, where, on one occasion, seven barrels were got out 

 in cultivating a garden, and considerable returns, as will presently 

 appear, having been made at Teny Cape. In 1861 Nicholas 

 Mosher, Esq. junr., of Avondale, brought me samples from Teny 

 Cape which I examined for him, and when he learned what the 

 substance was he sought for it diligently and procured several fine 

 specimens, some of which he sent to the International Exhibition 

 of 1862. He found the ore to occur about a foot below the sur- 

 face, in a bed of earth about a foot thick, in separate loose masses, 

 generally flattened in shape, of all sizes, from that of a bean up to 

 that of the lump of twenty-four pounds Aveight, which, as being 

 the largest then met with, was sent to the Exhibition. In this 

 mode of occurrence it Avas traced some fifty rods ; subsequently it 

 was found in thin veins in the rock under this earth, the rock being 

 "brick-like" and easily detached with a pick, so as to leave sheets 

 of the ore. In one place four Aeins were found in ten feet, the 

 largest vein being about one and half inch thick. Diggings were 



