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vegetable productions, and have from time to time sent 

 over specimens of such minerals as attracted their riotice. 



The general aspect of this dreary region is that of bare Face of the 

 and barren rock, towering in craggy eminences; and of countI 7« 

 sandy marshes, on which are formed a few pines, brushwood, 

 and aquatic mosses. In several parts of the country the 

 rocks are intersected by chasms, running generally in a right 

 line to a considerable distance, which, when covered with 

 snow, form dangerous pitfalls. The highest mountains 

 extend along the eastern coast: the elevation of one of them, 

 called Mount Thoresby, has been ascertained by actual 

 measurement to equal ^733 feel, and a few others probably 

 attain the height of 3000 feet. 



From the islands near cape Chudleigh the missionaries Minerals. 

 have sent specimens of large-grained pale granite with gar- 

 nets. The island of Ammitok, in lat. 59° 20', consists en- 

 tirely of a crumbling garnet rock, in which hornblende 

 sometimes occurs. The mountains about Nachwak bay 

 furnish lapis ollaris. 



On the south of the high land of Kiglapyed, in lat. 57*, 

 the district commences where the Labrador felspar is found; 

 this mineral occurs not only in rolled stones on the shore* 

 but in spots in the rocks in the neighbourhood of Nain, 

 and particularly in the rocks bordering a lagoon about 60 

 miles inland, in which Nain North river terminates. The 

 same district also produces the hyperstene or Labrador horn- 

 blende. 



At Hopedale a limestone occurs, from which have been 

 procured specimens of reddish limestone, of calcareous spar, 

 and of a variety of schiefes spar. 



The country to the west of cape Chudleigh, as far as 

 it has been explored, is called the Ungava* and abounds 

 with red jasper, with haematites, and with iron pyrites. 



'April the nth, 1812. 

 An account of the briue springs at Droitwich, by Leonard Brine springs 

 Horner, Esq., Sec. G. S., was read. at D«m*"«*. 



The town of Droitwich has been noted for the manufac- 

 ture of salt during at least a thousand years, but no detailed 

 account has hitherto been published of the natural and che- 

 mical history of the brine springs, from which it ic> pro- 

 cured. 



