hornblend

At the height of land dividing the waters that flow in different directions, into Esquimaux and Ungava Bays, the formation becomes syenitic schist, and continues so to within a short distance of the great fall on Hamilton River; when syenite succeeds; then gneiss; and along the shores of Esquimaux Bay syenitic gneiss, and pure quartz: lumps of black and red hornblend are met with everywhere.

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean

England, what is taken for it commonly being syenite, a rock indeed that differs from granite only in the substitution of hornblend for mica.

Sketches from Concord and Appledore Frank Preston Stearns 1881

I remarked a great abundance of silex and hornblend, with some curious specimens of ligneous petrifiactions.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841