On our way we stopped at Moss Island, when, immediately on landing, we found the mineral in question.

With respect to science, he continued collecting minerals with much zeal, and after reading White's "Selborne" he took much pleasure in watching the habits of birds.

Percival replied, that we were acting under a commission from the Governor to ascertain the useful minerals of the State; whereupon our utilitarian friend immediately demanded to be informed how the citizens at large, including himself, were to be benefited by the undertaking,putting question on question in a fashion which was most pertinacious and almost impertinent.

BERGMAN, TORBERN OLOF, a Swedish chemist, studied under Linnæus, and became professor of Chemistry at Upsala; discovered oxalic acid; was the first to arrange and classify minerals on a chemical basis (1735-1784).

That is what the English wanted the time they went to war; they want to close up the minerals for themselves.

I did not expect that any decent tradesman would slip a clause into a farm lease conveying the minerals below the surface to a farmer.

Gold, says one of our friends, is the hidden light of the earth, it crowns the mineral, as wine the vegetable order, being the last expression of vital energy.

"You speak of having discovered some interesting minerals, especially some good native copper.

The power of water to dissolve most minerals increases with its temperature and the amount of gases it contains.

He took a good deal of interest in examining my cabinet, and proposed I should exchange the Lake Superior minerals for the gold ores of Virginia, &c. He showed me his idea of the geological column, and drew it out.

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.

Our soil gives us minerals and fuel and almost suffices for our needs.

In like manner the blood holds various minerals in solution.

They won't go hunting mineral like a white man.

The "medicines" included such minerals as iron ore and sulphur; such vegetables as dried seeds, roots, and the leaves of plants domesticated hundreds of years ago by the Incas or gathered in the tropical jungles of the lower Urubamba Valley; and such animals as starfish brought from the Pacific Ocean.

They know mineral when they see it and they have good memories and can go to the spot afterwards.

The animal matter has been burnt out, leaving the mineral or earthy part, a white, brittle substance of exactly the same shape, but weighing only about two-thirds as much as the bone originally weighed.

Soil and grass had overlaid the mineral.

The natives of the province of Camarines partly devote themselves to the working of the mines of Mambulao and Paracale, which have the reputation of being very rich; but, far from availing themselves in the smallest degree of the advantages of art, they content themselves with extracting the ore by means of an extremley imperfect fusion, which is done by placing the mineral in shells and then heating them on embers.

Turning from the employment of the expensive reducing agents to the simple and sole application of heat, we are unwilling to believe that we do not here possess in eminence both the mineral and the medium of its reduction.

J. T. Johnston, Esq., of New York, writes (March 23d) that he has made an arrangement for procuring minerals for me from this part of the Union.

Dr. Paine, of New York, writes respecting minerals.

I therefore recommend that instead of retaining the mineral lands under the permanent control of the Government they be divided into small parcels and sold, under such restrictions as to quantity and time as will insure the best price and guard most effectually against combinations of capitalists to obtain monopolies.

"Mary is keen on geology, as you know, and I have studied minerals pretty closely.

It is also a source of danger, because the possibilities of taking those particular minerals from that particular cubic foot of the earth are ended.