There is land in Alaska little known full of coal and other useful minerals.

Copper, silver and coal can be found in large quantities, but little or no attention is now being paid to these valuable minerals, as every one is engaged in gold-hunting and working the extraordinary placer mining claims already located.

Aluminum; a magic mineral.

The Californian of April 26th said: "From a gentleman just from the gold region we learn that many new discoveries of gold have very recently been made, and it is fully ascertained that a large extent of country abounds with that precious mineral.

The Colloid chemistry of the silicate minerals.

Non-metallic minerals.

TAGGART, ARTHUR F. Handbook of mineral dressing; ores and industrial minerals.

No poisonous minerals fill up his chest, But herbs that will heal you when sick and distressed, Designed by our Maker all pain to subdue, Which tortures the frame where these antidotes grew.

EMERY, a dull, blue-black mineral, allied in composition to the sapphire, but containing a varying quantity of iron oxide; is found in large masses; is exceedingly hard, and largely used in polishing metals, plate-glass, and precious stones.

Asbestos, a fibrous mineral, was made into paper, tolerably light and pliant, which, being incombustible, was denominated "eternal paper."

" This magic speculum is a flat polished mineral, like cannel coal, of a circular form, fitted with a handle.

This is a characteristic granular limestone mineral, and a very interesting one.

ASBES`TOS, an incombustible mineral of a flax-like fibrous texture, which has been manufactured into cloth, paper, lamp-wick, steam-pipes, gas-stoves, &c. ASBJÖRN`SEN, a Dane, distinguished as a naturalist, and particularly as a collector of folk-lore, as well as an author of children's stories (1812-1885).

In places the limestone is perfectly crystallized, and of a pure white or other color, when it forms an attractive mineral, and often worth removing.

I have now been using the apparatus for nearly a month, and in its earliest days it led me right in the diagnosis of a microscopical mineral, iolite, not before found in our Irish granite, I think.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerals.

I have now been using the apparatus for nearly a month, and in its earliest days it led me right in the diagnosis of a microscopical mineral, iolite, not before found in our Irish granite, I think.

" This magic speculum is a flat polished mineral, like cannel coal, of a circular form, fitted with a handle.

The sap, still holding the flint in solution, flows out, clear as water, when the tree is tapped; but when it is concentrated by boiling, the silicious mineral is deposited in little crystals, so that the bottom of the pan appears to be covered with sand.

Sufficient has been advanced to warrant the additional assertion that we are here everywhere surrounded by this incomparable mineral, that it is brought to the surface from its deposits deep in the earth by the natural process in mining, and is only exceeded in quantity by the coal itself.

This is a characteristic granular limestone mineral, and a very interesting one.

At certain stations on the line there are vast reservoirs of this combustible mineral, from which the tenders are filled, and it is burned in specially adapted fireboxes.

There is supposed to be considerable mineral in the mountains, although they have never been explored.

So that he who first made known the use of that contemptible mineral, may be truly styled the father of arts, and author of plenty.

This conserves all their own juices which contain the various valuable natural salts, alkalies, &c., so necessary to health, and which we so vainly try to make up by the addition of crude minerals.