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EARTHS. TALCOSE. 4. Aainotus. 



Aluta* Flexible, floating, in thin lamellar pieces. 



Amifint. corticof, membranac. Syfi. nat xii. 3. p- 57. ». 9. 



Amiart. fibris Kiollior. Wall pd. l. p. 399. n. 7. 



Aluta Montana. Vo gel mineral. 171. 



Found in Siberta^ RuJJln^ Siveden^ Hungary^ Tyroly Franca^, Scc» 

 in pieces of the tHcknefs and confiilence of fine fhoe-leather 

 or thick brown paper: colour white, cinereous, or pale 

 yellowifh. 



argentifer* Flexible, browni{h-red, in thin lamellar pieces, highly 

 charged with filver ore. 

 Lehmann phsf chetn. Berlin^ 1761. 8. p. I16. 

 Found in the mines of liercynia^ Carolina ^ and Dorothea, 



4. ACTINOTUS. Ccnliding of carbonate of 

 magnefia, a larger proportion of oxyde of iron, 

 and the greater part filica : harfh to the touch, 

 fhining, rigid, fragile, parafuic, generally of a 

 green colour, fpontaneoiifly falling into granukr 

 fragments, but breaking into indeterminate frag- 

 ments: melting in the fire, with ebullition, into 

 a pellucid 6 -coloured globule. 



fihroiuj* Opake, foft, Ihining within, fibrous with the fibres di- 

 verging. 



Uo^mann Bergm-journ^ ^7^9* ^' P' ^^3' 



Found with pyrites in the mines of Saxonyy of a glafTy luftrc, 

 fomenmes greyifh-white, grcenifh or reddifh-white, or cine^' 

 reous : feels a little grcafy to the touch. 



vulgaris. Shining, hardifh, pellucid or diaphanons, radiate or ftriate. 

 Alb rtoid. Kir--wan mineral, I. /». i66. 

 Radi-ted or Itriated Shorl. Schmeijfer^ \,p. 206. 

 Adinote. "Thomjoni che?niflrjy 3« /• 59-'> 597^ 



1. With the rays parallel. 



2. With the rays divergent, 

 3 With the rays fafcicled. 



4. With the rsy ftellate. 



5. With the rays fcattered. 



6. PelJu.id,, in 6 (ided, elongated, compreiTed prifms. 



Found in the Iron mines of SnjL-eaent the quarries oi Saxony, 2ir\^ 

 the mountains oF Fraconia and Tyral, in long flattifli 4 or 6- 

 fided cr)ll:als, which are brittle and not flexible: feels very 

 flightly, if any thing, greafy to the touch : colour greenilh- 

 white cr red difn grey : it often conltitutcs the matrix of 

 metallic ores: contains filica 43. carbonate of liijic ?2, 

 iron 34. 



