150 |kfo=(fi;ttcjlanti5 Parities. 



Black Lead} 



Bole Armoniack. 



[93] Red and Yellow Okcr. 



Terra Si": ilia. 



Vitriol. 



Antimony. 



Arfnick, too much. 



Lead. 2 



Tin. 



Tin Glafs. 



Silver. 



Iron, in abundance, and as good bog Iron as any in the 

 World. 



Copper. It is reported that the French have a Copper 

 Mine at Port Royal, that yieldeth them twelve Ounces of 

 pure Copper out of a Pound of Oar. 



1 "Mr. John Winthrope, jun., is granted y 6 hill at Tantousq, about 60 miles 

 westward, in which the black-leade is ; and liberty to purchase some land there 

 of the Indians" (13th November, 1644). — Mass. Col. Rec., vol. ii. p. 82; and 

 Savage, in Winthrop, N. E., vol. ii. p. 213, note. The place mentioned is what 

 is now Sturbridge ; which is called "the most important locality " of black-lead 

 in Massachusetts, by Dr. Hitchcock. — Geol., pp. 47, 395. 



2 "The mountains and rocky hills are richly furnished with mines of lead, 

 silver, copper, tin, and divers sorts of minerals, branching out even to their 

 summits; where, in small crannies, you may meet with threds of perfedt silver: 

 yet have the English no maw to open any of them ; " and so forth. — Jossclyn's 



Voyages, p. 44. 



