58 Dr. Berger on the Isle of Man. 



the coal-pits of Whitehaven. In the present state of affairs in the 

 Isle of Man, any thing, I should apprehend, that would have a ten- 

 dency to diminish the number of hands that may be employed in 

 extending the culture of the land, would rather operate as a check 

 on the farther improvement of the island itself. 



IV. Simple Minerals not in Situ, 



It is very doubtful whether the minerals mentioned here, do 

 really belong to the Isle of Man. They made part of a collection 

 that was in the possession of the late Lord Henry Murray, and 

 were obligingly communicated to me by Mr. Wm. Scott, the Col- 

 lector of the Custom-house at Douglass. Many of them had no 

 labels affixed to them. The informations I received concerning 

 them, I shall here communicate. 



Wolfram^ either in detached pieces or fragments, or adherent to 

 quartz : supposed to have been found in loose pieces at the surface 

 of the ground, on the slope of South Bor-roilva, two miles from the 

 mines of Foxdale. 



Tin-Stone. Great doubts may be entertained as to its occurience 

 in the Isle of Man. 



Earthy talc. Said to have been found on Mount Murray. 



Could we depend on the locality of the earthy talc here, its oc- 

 currence would rather favour the possibility of that of tin, as the 

 two substances often accompany each other.* 



I consider myself warranted to deduce the two following con- 

 clusions. 



1. That it appears extremely probable that at some period or 



* Jameson's Mineralogy. Vol. 1. p. 431. 



