no EARTHS. CALCAREOUS. 28. Apatites. 



Kanten Schr» Berl, Naturf, 9. ^. 355, 

 Found near Ehrenfriederfdorf in Saxony, 



prismatkus* In 6-rided prifms, of a rather grcafy luflre, parafitical, 



breaking into indeterminate fragments, of a minutely 

 granular texture, which when broken tranfverfely is 

 lamellar. 



We-^ner Ber^m% yourn. 1 788. I. p. 76. 



Klaproth Bergm.Journ.\-j^%. 1 p. 294. 



Kar ten Schr, Berl. Naturf g. p. 3^5. 



Phofphorite. Kirn.v an miner, i. p. 129. 



A p • t i te . Schmeijjer mineral I . p. 2%Z. 



Common Apatite, ^homfon chem, 3. p, 617. 



Found in Cornn.valli Suxcnv, and Ge>-manyy with tin ore and 

 fluor: colour green, pale violet, reddilh, or white, rarely yel- 

 lovvifli, cinereous, blue or olive-colour : lofes its colour and 

 tranfp?rency in the fire, but melts with great difficulty ; is 

 very finely ftri.:te longitudinally :_ cryiUls fmall, folitary or 

 irregularly cohering; the prifms roraetime? pcrfe(fl,fometimes 

 terminated at one or b^^th ends with a 6 fided pyramid, the 

 lateral margins fometimes ending in a point, and the terminal 

 ones with the angles truncate, fometimes the lateral margins 

 are rounded; fpecific gravity = 221 8 : 1000. 



Qhrysditki' |n 6- Tided prifms, terminated at both ends by a 6-rided 

 '•'"'»• pyramid, green, breaking into indeterminate frag- 



ments, of a conchaceous texture when broken tranf- 

 verfely. 



Werner Bergm. Journ. 1790. 7. p. 74, &c. 



B.o?}ie de l^ ffie Crystall. 2. />, 277. Chryfolithe. 



opatum chryfolithinum. GmeL/yit. nat. 3,^, 98. 



Found near Carboneira'xn Spainy in fmall folitary cryftals, which 

 are fometimes holiow : it efi-'erveices a little with the nitric 

 acid, and emits very little if any phofph-irefcent light when 

 powdered and thrown upon burning coals : fpecific gravity 

 = 3C98 : 1000, 



.'clumncrh. In 8-lided prifms, of a rather greafy luflre, parafitical, 

 \ femipellucid, breaking into indeterminate fragments, 



of a minutely granular texture, which when broken 

 tr "nfvcrfely is lamellar, 

 Karsten Lejke mineral, i. />. 283. 

 F und near Schneeberg and Ehrenfriederfdorf irt Saxony» 



irudrus. In 3. fided prifms, of a rather greafy luftre, parafitical, 



femipellucid, breaking into indeterminate fragments, 

 of a minutely granular texture, which when broker} 

 tranfverfely is lamellar. 

 Karsten Schr. Berl. Naturf 9-/!. 355. 

 tound near Ehrenfriedtrjdorf \\\ Saxony, 



