The Mineral Kingdom. 
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Few countries are more highly favored in the variety and 
value of metallic ores, and none can boast of so general or 
natural distribution of them, as Hayti. On the present oeca- 
sion little more is required than a summary note of certain 
known localities in these parts of the country. In the North 
St. Michel, the parishes of Lemonade, London, Plaisance, and 
Port de Paix, are mineral districts; the neighborhood of 
Jacmel; the Mirebalais, Lascahobas, and Banica, in the West 
and East Northeast, are among the most interesting mineral 
sections of the Republic. The South has also its portion of 
this species of natural wealth. Iron is everywhere profusely 
distributed under the form of the Peroxide, hoematite, the 
carburet, pyrites, or the sulphuret. Detached pieces of mag¬ 
netic iron are often met with. The country abounding every¬ 
where in wood, smelting establishments and founderies would 
quickly realize the hopes of the most sanguine and ambitious. 
Extensive mines of coal (Lignite) are about being utilized by 
the Government; those already known are located, one at a 
short distance from the town of Aux Cayes, at “ Camp-Perin, 
and the other, in the Northeastern section of the Republic, in 
the vicinity of the Artibonite River. There are other natural 
depots of this invaluable mineral, situated in other parts, but 
the above ones, in extent, appear to be inexhaustible, and are 
still more valuable from the facility of transport offered by their 
location. 
Gold quartz and copper, antimony and silver, the jasper and 
marble, talc, jet, and the agate, are among the providential 
dotations that are most abundantly and generally diffused in 
and about the mountain ranges of Hayti. Copper is seen 
under different forms and in different places. The most com¬ 
mon are the blue and green pyrites, mixed often with the sul 
phuret of iron, at other times separate. The red, blue, and 
green oxyd, or malachite, under the blowpipe will yield from 
35 to 45 per cent, of copper, but these are not the richest in 
Hayti. Salines are numerous. Rock, or gem salt, is a 
