Mineralogy. — Ajitiquitlcs, 9 1 



lids by the application of the fpirit itfelf. The pain and iii- 

 liaiTimatioii following this application were extremely feverc, 

 but foon terminated in his complete cure. 



Parhnfon's Chemical Pochet-hooh, or Mcmororula Chevnca^ 

 Second Ediiion, Symonds, Murray and Highley, Sec. 

 We announced the publication of the firft edition of this 

 valuable little work in our fixth volume^ p. 364. We then 

 ohferved, that Mr. Parkinfon's work could not fail to be ufe- 

 ful in no mean degree, thougl\jve, feared that in a few cafes 

 he had admitted facets of uncertain authority, and theories 

 not fiifficiently fupportcd. In the prefent edition, which we 

 arc happy to find fo foon called for by the public, the author 

 \ms feparated as much as poffible the varying opinions which 

 he wKhed to enumerate, from the other part of the work, and 

 has inli'oduced fuch new chemical facts as have been efta- 

 bliflied fince its firft publication. 



MINERALOGY. 



The Chemical Society of Philadelphia, befides a variety 

 of other minerals from different parts of the United States, 

 have lately received a fpecimen of the golden or auriferous 

 pyrites from Virginia, from ten pennyweights of which three 

 grains of gold, twenty-four carats fine, have been extra6ted. 



A quantity of manganefe has been fent to the Society 

 from the county of Albemarle, where it is found in abun- 

 dance. This mineral now retails in Philadelphia at the rate 

 of elevenpence per pound. 



A variety of the fulphate of baryles, called lapis hepat^i- 

 cus, accurately dcfcribed by Cronitedt as the lieberfiein, or 

 iiverftone, of the Germans and Swedes, has alfo been for- 

 warded to the Society from the fame place. This mineral 

 almoft always accompanies the beft metallic ores, and is con- 

 fidered by mineralogifts as a happy prefage of finding them. 

 According to the celebrated Becher, it is a certain indication, 

 tiut pra'Jenlls aut juiuri mctalil. 



ANTiaUITIKS. 



The French in Egypt have not been idle in their refearche^s 

 ;i>jLo the immenfe treafurcs of antiquity fo long concealed in 



M % this 



