The Canadian journal of science, literature and history . itry <t: Phtlo/inphiiUniv. Coll., Toronto. .T. B. CIIERRIMAN, Prof, of Kaf. Philosophy, Unir. Coll., Toronto The Canadian Journal is printed for gratuitous di.^tributionamong the Members of the Canadian Institute, and such Institutions andSocieties as the Council may determine ; but Members may purchase extracopies at 50c. per number, and Provincial Literary and Scientific Societiesmay obtain the Journal at the same rate, by an annual payment in advance *^* Communications for the Journal to be address


The Canadian journal of science, literature and history . itry <t: Phtlo/inphiiUniv. Coll., Toronto. .T. B. CIIERRIMAN, Prof, of Kaf. Philosophy, Unir. Coll., Toronto The Canadian Journal is printed for gratuitous di.^tributionamong the Members of the Canadian Institute, and such Institutions andSocieties as the Council may determine ; but Members may purchase extracopies at 50c. per number, and Provincial Literary and Scientific Societiesmay obtain the Journal at the same rate, by an annual payment in advance *^* Communications for the Journal to be addressed to the GeneralEditor, Rev. Dr. Scadding, 10 Trinity Square, Toronto. Communicationson general business of the Institute to be addressed to W. Mortimer Clark,Esq., Corresponding Secretary, or to Mr. James Johnson, Assistant Secre-tary, Canadian Institute, Toronto. Mr. Edward Alle\, 12 Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, London, \V.,has been appointed the English Agent for the Institute. All European commiinications are requested to be forwarded through Fig, Roclr PoTmationson. IT or tin Sliore of Lake Superior. Lex^eZ ofLaJre^ S*aperio-jr Step-like outline of Thunder Cape,as seen from the Soutfi East. Chfwetti Co. lifli. Toronto. THE CANADIAN JOUENAL. NE^V SERIES No. LXX. —NOVEMBER, 1869. ANALYSES OF SOME CANADIAN MINERALS. BY E. J. CHAPMAN, PH. D. PEOFESSOR OF MINERAIOGT AND GEOLOGY IN UNIVEESITT COIXEGE, TOEONTO. 1. Graphite : from the township of Buckingham, on the Ottawa,(lot 19, range 5). The sample employed in this analysis was apparently very pure:soft, black, sub-foliated, and highly lustrous. Sp. gr. = 2-265. Themoisture was determined by desiccation in an air-bath at a temperatureof 212°. The carbon was then burnt off by prolonged ignition in themuffle of an assay-furnace; and the-resulting ash was fused with car-bonate of soda in a platinum vessel, and decomposed in the usual wayby chlorhydrie acid. 6-314 grammes lost 82 millig


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