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THE METALS IN CANADA* 
BY MESSRS. WILTON AND ROBB. 
Lead. — The Geological Survey report the occurrence of lead in many 
localities in Canada. The following extracts from Sir William Logan's 
"Reports of Progress will conclusively show to any one at all ac- 
quainted with the subject, that rich and persistent deposits of lead may 
he looked for in the townships of Bedford and Lansdowne, counties of 
Frontenac and Leeds. 
In the Keport for 1858, pp. 48—50, he says under the head : — " Galena. 
— This ore of lead is another of the minerals that are to be looked for in 
connection with the limestones of the Laurentian series, but it is not yet 
determined whether it specially characterises one or more of the bands. 
None of it was met with in the calcareous exposures in the district 
of the Kouge ; but I have been informed that several veins holding 
galena have recently been discovered in the township of Bedford, not 
very far removed from the lodes which have already been discovered by 
Mr. Murray, in the twenty-first lot ; and near the line between the 
eighteen and nineteen lots of the eighth range of the township." 
In the Keport for 1851-52, Mr. Murray makes mention cf the 
occurrence, in the second lot of the eighth range of Lansdowne, of a 
vein of heavy-spar and calc-spar cutting rocks of the Laurentian series, 
and holding disseminated crystals of galena, which had been unsuccess- 
fully tried as a lead mine. Subsequently to his visit to the locality, a 
lode was discovered on the third lot of the same range, from which 
specimens were obtained in 1855 for the Paris Exhibition. 
A trial shaft was sunk on it to the depth, it was said, of fifty feet, and 
a sufficient quantity of ore obtained to pay the expenses of sinking. 
The specimens showed a thickness of between two and three inches of 
pure galena, associated with calc-spar. It was said that other lodes 
existed in the neighbourhood, but their position was kept secret. 
"The bearings given by Mr. Murray to the three lodes examined by 
him in Bedford are N. 15 W., N. 32 W.,'and N. 85 W., the last being 
the course of the lode traced and tested farthest. The distance between 
the Bedford and Lansdowne lodes is not much over twenty miles; and 
considering the differences that may be allowed for the gentle windings 
which usually exist in the courses of metalliferous veins, it appears not 
at all improbable that the lodes of the two localities may be identical or 
belong to one group, the bearing of the two positions being about N. 
68 W. and S. 68 E. of one another. If a line from the Bedford to the 
Lansdowne lodes were continued twenty-five miles farther, it would 
cross the St. Lawrence and strike Kossie in Lawrence County, New 
York : where a group of well known veins of lead ore exists, some of 
* Report of Progress for 1858, page 51. 
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