EARTHS. CARCAREOUS. 15. Stakaites. 



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3. With a rich fatiny luftre. 



Satin fpar. So-iKierby Brit, mineral. I. /. 1 1. /. 5. 

 Satin fpar. Pepys Philof. mag, xii, />. 365. 



Found in Ruffiay Poland^ German's^ Saxony^ and Bohemiay with 

 the fibres Itraight or a little curved : the fatin fpar is found 

 about a mile from Alston in Cumberland^ waflied by the river 

 'Tyne-, near the level of its bed ; colour white with foiijetimes 

 a rofy tinge from a diluted mixture of oxyde of iron, and 

 tranfmits light from the edges or in thtner pieces : tradure in 

 the dircdlion of the ftrine fibrous, ftraight or curved : fpecific 

 gravity from 2,709. to 2,721. contains carbonic acid 47,600. 

 carbonate of lime 50,080. water of ci'vilallization 02,308. 

 and fometimes iron 00,012. Pepys. 



acerosus. With the fibres fafcicled. 

 Gerh. mineral. />. 53. «. 3. 



Found at Schemniz in Hungary, white or yellowifli, yeirowy 

 yellaw-brown, or flefn-colour. 



stellaris. With the fibres diverging in a ftellate manner, of a com* 

 mon figure. 

 Inolithus radians, Gerh. mineral, p. 52. n. 2. 

 Found in calcareous moimtains in Germany, and in the mines of 

 Bohemia and Hungary, white, fometimes yellowifli or cine- 

 reous, 



fiosferri, Ramulous, with the fibres diverging in a ftellate manner. 



Stala<5liLes marmoreus. ^yst. nat. xii, 3. p. 183. n. 4. 



Ferrum mineral, ramof. Carth. fnin. 71. 



Stalagmite? coralloides. Wall. Jyst. 2. p. 388. n. 9. d. 



Found in the iron mines of Heidenhelm in Wirtemhurg, in Styer-' 

 march, Carinthia and Hungary, fometimes mixed with iroiv 

 but more frequently upon iron-ftone : generally inovvy,. fome- 

 times yellowilh. 



spatosus» 



15. STALACTITES. Confiilinf? of carbonate of 

 lime, carbonic acidj and water: formed in the 

 air, by the gradual depofition of water: diapha- 

 nous, without luftre internally, breaking into in- 

 determinate fragments, and ieparating into con- 

 centric crufts : found chiefly on tht roofs and 

 iides of arches, and the caverns of calcareous- 

 mountains. 



Pendulous,, lamellar internally, diaphanous- 

 Lime Sralaftite. So^erhy Brit. min. p. 13. to.h.b. 

 btaladites marmorea. Sysf^ nat. xii^ 3. p. 184. n. 7, 



