70 EARTHS, TALCOSE. 5. Hornblcnda. 



Found in fcattered pieces in the Tfland St. Pauh on the Labra- 

 dore coaft: colour greyifti-black, with fometimes a (hade of 

 coppery-red or iron-grey, according to the diredion of the 

 light : frafture moftly curved and foliated. 



kasahtna. Shining, hardifh, leaving a greyiih-white ftreak, when 

 broken longitudinally exhibiting flraight lamellar 

 pieces, cryftallifing into fmall 6 and 8- Tided prifms 

 terminated by 3-fided pyramids. 



Bafaltine. Kiriuan mtne^'al. i. p 219. 



Bafalt Hornblende. SchmeiJJer mineral i. p, 183. 



Bafaltic Hornblende. Thomfotii chemiHry^ 3. p 543, 



Found in Bafah, TufFe, Wacke, and Lavas, in moll parts of 

 Europey to which it adhere? very clofely : colour black, 

 greenilh-black, dark green, or yellosviih-green j of a fhining 

 furface when broken: melts before the blow-pipe into a 

 greyifli enamel with a tinge of yellow: contains filica 58, 

 alumina 27. iron 9. lime 4. magnefia i. Bergman, 



