veins appear to be bold and roomy, and to contain plenty of good iron ore, from the abundance of a bright red iron earth found in the surface of them. There is great abundance of bog ore over all the low country of Caithness. In many places it almost covers the whole face of the ground to a considerable depth. It is easily known and distinguished by the friable constitution of its misshapen masses, by its external blackish and rusty colour, and by its internal blackish gray colour and granulated porous texture. It is always found loose on the surface of the ground in the same manner as float ore, without any connexion with the vein or stratum. Discovery of Antimony in Banffshire.A promising appearance of antimony ore has been lately discovered on the estate of Lord Fife. This ore, we understand, has been examined by Professor Jameson, who finds that it is the radiated gray antimony, and contains 70 parts antimony and 30 of sulphur. We trust this very promising discovery will be vigorously pursued. Two New Minerals. We understand that Dr Macculloch has discovered two new minerals in Scotland, an account of which will be given in his work on the Hebrides. We have obtained the following sketches of their prominent characters. The first is easily recognised by its resemblance to indurated steatite or noble serpentine, and by its green colour, on a fresh fracture, shortly turning to black, when it can scarcely be distinguished by the eye from jet or drycoal: it is also infusible before the blowpipe. Dr M. has given it the name of chlorophacite, from its most obvious property. It occupies amygdaloidal cavities in the trap rocks. The second is a white powder, of a harsh feel, but incapable of scratching glass, and nearly as fusible as that substance, producing a transparent colourless bead; characters sufficient to distinguish it from any mineral hitherto described. It occupies similar cavities in trap, and he has given to it, from its leading character, the name of conite. Caducium.Another New Metal.-M. Gay Lussac communicated, in the last sitting of the French Academy of Sciences, a note upon a new metal, which has received the name of caducium, discovered by Professor Stromeyer of Gottingen. The caducium is white as tin, very ductile, combines easily with other metals, fuses and volatizes in less time than zinc. It is found in abundance in the mines of this last metal. Its specific weight is 8.65. This discovery, M. Gay Lussac expects, will be of great consequence to the arts, on account of the properties which the new metal possesses; and of those which it can communicate to metals with which it is capable of amalgamating. On ascertaining the heights of Mountains in India.-Lieutenant Webb, of the Bengal Establishment, has transmitted to Eu rope the result of his operations for ascertaining the heights of some of the principal mountains in the Nepaul country; from which it is found, that many of those mountains much exceed in height any before known; that out of 27 peaks, 19 are higher than Cimboraso, and that the highest exceeds the mountain of the Andes (heretofore supposed the highest in the world), nearly 5,000 feet. Lieutenant Webb's results were transmitted by a correspondent, to the Editor of the Madras Gazette, and published in that paper, from which we copy the following table, in which the altitude above the sea is calculated. Copper in Caithness.-Many of the mineral veins on this coast contain copper, several are hollowed by the waves of the sea washing out the softer mineral soils. There are several fine rake veins tending towards the north and south, and others towards an east and west direction, near the castle of Old Wick. These veins intersect one another at right angles, and in some of them pretty good copper ore is found. The veins at Wick are remarkably good and promising, and regularly open between the sides, containing some copper ore, even at the surface, with various other mineral soils, both hard and soft. One of the places is on the cliff of the sea, about half way down from its summit, in a strong bold vein containing some copper ore; but as most of the mineral soils in this vein were hard, there was but little done in it. The other vein was found open and good, immediately below the upper soil, containing spar and vein-stone, and a blackish brown chun, or soft mineral soil, with some copper ore at the very surface. The copper was found in small masses on the chun, and mixed or blended through all the vein-stones and spar. It did not appear to be very rich in quality; but, perhaps, that is not ultimately against it. In Cornwall, where they have the richest copper mines, the ore is generally poor in quality, which defect is compensated by the great quantity produced; and if we may judge from appearances, Old Wick promises to be a productive copper mine, when the best veins are opened and effectually explored.-Inverness Courier. WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. DR AYRE of Hull, will soon publish, in an octavo volume, Practical Observations on Marasmus, and those disorders allied to it, that may be strictly denominated bilious. The Hon. and Rev. E. 1. Turnour has in the press, the Warning Voice, a sacred poem, addressed to Infidel Writers of Poetry. The Rev. R. Brook is preparing for publication, the State and Progress of Religious Liberty, from the first propagation of Christianity in Britain to the present time. Dr A. B. 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