osseous deposits. Here he had engaged in

the business of gold-mining, without, perhaps,

sufficient grounds for any confident hope of ultimate

success. I have his I.O.U. for the amount

of my fee for assaying several specimens from his

claim, said specimens being all iron pyrites.

This is all I am able to call to mind at present

in the matter of Mr. Beauvoir. I trust his subsequent

career was of a nature better calculated to

be satisfactory to himself; but his mineralogical