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Hoffman, our mineralogist, an active young man, resolved to undertake this expedition, accompanied by three Tahaitians: Maititi, who on our arrival had concluded a treaty of friendship with him, and adopted the name of Hoffman; Tauru, a respectable elderly man; and Teiraro, a brisk and lively young fellow. The two latter could write their own names.
No fewer than twenty-one of the twenty-eight fell to rise no more, among whom were the Governor himself; Mr Wilkinson, his secretary: Captain Rogers, a mineralogist; Mr White, the surgeon; Mr Holt, of the Swedish navy, and Mr McLean, a principal settler.
'No; we are quite alone, and you may be sure I will not breathe a word of what you have been telling me. 'Don't breathe it to Kenyon, at least. He would think me insane if he knew what I have said. 'Is Mr. Kenyon an accountant, too? 'Oh no. He is a mineralogist. He can go into a mine, and tell with reasonable certainty whether it will pay the working or not.
Being a splendid engineer as well as a mineralogist, he found a place with a crew of mining engineers about to inspect Pagoda Peak section and Lost Lake district. He came with them. "After he had been in these mountains for a time, he was so certain of finding gold that he remained when the rest of the crew went back to Denver.
He accordingly, at the end of 1836, took lodgings for three months in Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, so as to be near Henslow; and in studying and determining his geological specimens received much valuable aid from the eminent crystallographer and mineralogist, Professor William Hallows Miller.
Travels in Hungary. By Rob. Townson, M.D. 1796. 4to. This is a valuable work to the natural historian, particularly the mineralogist: it also contains a very particular account of the Tokay wines. Travels in the Ionian Islands, Albania, Thessaly, and Greece, 1812-13. By Dr. Holland. 4to. 1815.
Suppose a mineralogist or a chemist were to succeed in discovering the exact point at which inorganic matter gave birth to the organic; his discovery would be momentous and would convey to us a most distinct assurance of the method by which the governing power of the universe works: but would it qualify the mineralogist or the chemist to give a full account of all the diversities of animal life, and of the history of man?
An expert mineralogist and metallurgist, he had been commissioned by a large syndicate of eastern capitalists to come west, primarily to examine a certain mine recently offered for sale, and secondarily to secure any other valuable mining properties which might happen to be on the market. A promoter, whose acquaintance he had formed soon after leaving St.
We adjourned to the bar parlour, and Jack had a glass of brandy, for which he did not pay. There was among the company a man from Adelaide, a learned mineralogist, who commenced a dissertation on the origin of gold. He was most insufferable; would talk about nothing but science.
Davy's fishing friends have since called upon us: Mr. Solly, a great mineralogist, and Mr. Children, a man of Kent. I am working away at "Patronage," but cannot at all come up to my idea of what it should be. To MRS. MARY SNEYD. ARDBRACCAN HOUSE, Nov. 1811.
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