thousand
dollars' worth have been sold as specimens. Short's Claim, on the north
shore of Lake Clear, yields the choicest twins. Perhaps the finest twin
crystals ever found, and one of the best single crystals, are in the
British Museum Collection; while the best series of this mineral is
probably that in the collection of Clarence S. Bement, of Philadelphia.
An enormous single crystal is in the cabinet of the Academy of Natural
Sciences at Philadelphia. In Burgess and adjoining townships fine
crystals occur, not so large as those from Renfrew County, but of
exquisite polish and highly modified forms; in Templeton and near
Grenville, Que., especially four miles north, are found smaller
crystals, often cherry-red and transparent, that would yield gems; and
many of the crystals are modified and associated with wollastonite and
graphite.
Tourmaline
in green crystals is found in Chatham Township, Que., and the green
and red varieties in Villeneuve Township, Que. Brown tourmalines are
frequently met with in the Laurentian limestone. Fine crystals, rich
yellowish or translucent brown in color, often occur imbedded in a
flesh-red limestone in Ross, Ont., Calumet Falls, Clarendon, and
Hunterstown, Que. These furnish an occasional gem. Slender crystals in
white quartz occur at Fitzroy, Island Portage, and Lac des Chats, and
of inferior color at McGregor's Quarry in Lachute, Ont. Black
tourmaline of no gem value is found in a number of localities,
principally at Yeo's Island, near the Upper end of Tar Island, one of
the Thousand Islands. It occurs in large crystals at Murray Bay, Cape
Tourmente, Que., and in white quartz near Bathurst, Ont.; in the
granitic veins in Ross, Ont.; on Roche Fendue Channel, on Camping Place
Bay, on Charleston Lake in Lansdowne, in Blythfield, on the Madawaska,
and at North Elmsley and Lachute, Ont. ; and on the west side of the
North River at St. Jerome, St. Felix, and Calumet Falls, Que. The
velvet-black, fibrous tourmaline found at Madoc and Elzevir, Ont.,
gives a blue powder and is evidently an indicolite, like the variety
from Paris, Me.
Almandite
garnets occur plentifully in crystals in mica schist along the Stickeen
River in British Columbia. Owing to their perfect form and polish, the
faces of these crystals are the most beau-
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