CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 369

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is just wat nappened in my case, For many years I had been a

steaent of rooks, being for 18 years a resident on the rocky

Island of Long-kong. Thad aiscovered old slags, and tracings

of old Chinese mining and smelting there, and, from one thing

to another, traced the origin of the now rare Chinese colour-

ings on ancient porcelain, (the platinum metals) now unknown

even to the Chinese, i nave proved the correctness of Professor Dana's description, in his "Manual of Vineralogy and Litholo±y",

fourth Edition, 1882 page 112, of the minerale most common in

gold regions, and detected some of the platinum metals in the

bone-kɔng rocks, Laving letters from Vessers Johnson Matthay

& Co. of London to prove it. In osnesquence of the close study

of these metals for a long period, some of the characteristics

of the metal semium came under my notice, Dana refers to one

of these tpage 127. This metal has had a most extraordinary

influence on the physical world for perbale miiliona of years,

and is stillvery active. To mymind it accounts for the pir

mentation of the thiopians' skin. what I found active in

however was, that with nitre it produced a poisonous penetr-

ating was, more or less potent according to the heat applied.

I consider the disintigration of rocks largely due to the

presence of osmium, when tais has been changed by slow access of nitre from the atmosphere. futa the intrarias (03.04)11

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