him and such as he with no sign of a golden harvest.  Failure and vexation, disappointment, loss, and ruin, will be again, as they have already been, his only reward.  With this full disclaimer, therefore, at the commencement of our remarks, we trust that we shall, at least, have no sin of enticement laid at our door.  If any one chooses to go there and try it on his own individual responsibility, and in the face of this energetic protest and solemn warning, it must surely be no further affair of ours.

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The authorities, official, statistical, and scientific, from which our knowledge of the Gold-Fields of Nova Scotia is mainly derived, are as follows:—­

1.  Report of a Personal Inspection of the Gold-Fields of Nova Scotia, in the Consecutive Order in which they were visited.  Made by Lord Mulgrave to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, and dated at Government House, Halifax, N.S., 21st June, 1862.

2.  Report of the Chief Gold-Commissioner for the Province of Nova Scotia for the Year 1862.  Made to the Honorable the Provincial Secretary, and dated at Halifax, January 23, 1863.

3.  Report of the Provincial Geologist, Mr. Campbell.  Made to the Honorable Joseph Howe, Provincial Secretary, at Halifax, N.S., 25th February, 1863.  Accompanied by a Section across the Gold-bearing Rocks of the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia.

4.  Report on the Gold-Districts of the Province of Nova Scotia.  Made to the President and Directors of the Oldham Gold-Mining Company, December 28, 1863, by George I. Chace, Professor of Chemistry in Brown University, Providence, R.I. Manuscript.

5.  Introductory Remarks on the Gold-Region of Nova Scotia.  Prefixed to a Report made to the President and Directors of the Atlantic Mining Company, December 31, 1863.  By Benjamin Silliman, Jr., Professor of General and Applied Chemistry in Yale College, New Haven, Ct. Manuscript.

6.  Report on the Montague Gold-Field, near Halifax, N.S., by the Same, and on the Gold-Fields of the Waverley District, by the Same. Manuscript.

7.  Quarterly Report of the Chief Gold-Commissioner of the Province of Nova Scotia.  Made to the Provincial Secretary at Halifax, October 1, 1863.

8.  The Royal Gazette, issued by the Chief Gold-Commissioner, Halifax, January 20, 1863.  Published by Authority.

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In confirmation of these documents, we shall only need to add the “testimony of the rocks” themselves, as shown in more than sixty specimens of the gold-bearing quartz of these remarkable mines.  Some of these were brought to Boston by Professors Chace and Silliman, on their return a few weeks since from exploring the rich leads of the Provinces,—­but by far the larger number were forwarded by some of the resident superintendents of the mines, by the Cunard steamer Africa, arriving in Boston, Sunday,