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middle of some leaves is adorned with concentric bands of yellow and 

 blue, in the manner of a peacock's tail, as in the prickly Mauritia, dis- 

 covered by Bonpland on the banks of the Rio Atabapo. The direction 

 of the leaves is a character of no less importance than that of form and 

 colour. 



The segments are either ranged in a comb-line manner close to one 

 another, with a stiff parenchyma, allowing the solar rays to play over 

 their surface, and causing them to shine with a brilliant verdure in the 

 Coco-nut palm, and with a fainter ashy-coloured hue in the date tree, 

 or they have a more flexible, grass-like texture, and are curled near the 

 extremity. Another peculiarity is also notable, the more acute the 

 angle made by the leaves with the upper part of the stem, the nearer the 

 leaves approach the perpendicular, the bolder and nobler is the aspect of 

 the species to which they belong. 



This will at once be evident by comparing the pendent leaves of the 

 Palma de Covija (Copernicia tectorum), with the more horizontal leaves 

 of the coco-nut palm, and the lofty heavenward pointed foliage of the 

 Jagua, the Cucurito, and Pirijao. — Seeman on Palms. 



THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



BY L. W. BAILEY, 

 Professor of Chemistry in the University of New Brunswick. 



As the subject of the mineral resources of this province is at the 

 present time absorbing a large proportion of public attention, and as a 

 very general interest seems to be manifested in almost all parts of the 

 province, in searching for and developing our metallic wealth, I have 

 thought that a brief list of the ores already known and their localities, 

 together with a few simple directions for the discrimination of future 

 specimens, might possibly prove interesting to those engaged in such 

 pursuits, and perhaps to the public generally. I have therefore prepared 

 and given below a short list of the principal ores known to exist in the 

 province, with a few observations appended upon their quantity, quality, 

 and facility of working, so far as has been hitherto ascertained. My 

 authority for the greater part of the following facts are the labours of the 

 late Dr. Robb, the metallurgical collection of the University, and state- 

 ments, published or otherwise, of the late M. H. Perley, Esq., Dr. Gesner, 

 and other gentlemen in various parts of the province : — 



Iron. — Red Haematite, found at Woodstock, King's County, Queen's 

 County, Bathurst, and Richibucto. Micaceous ore, specidar iron, red 

 haematite, found at Morrison's, West Beach. Specular iron, found at 

 Black River and Campo Bello. Iron pyrites and cubic pyrites, found at 



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