EARTHS. AGGREGATE. 62. Amygdalites. 



195 



Achate5. Rumph^muf. tah 56. /", A — D« 

 Agate. \ichmei£nr miner aL \. p.WJ* 



1. The condituent pints difpofcd in alternate llraight, rarely un- 



dulate, bands jiffcring in cobur. 

 Bandachat. Karjlen Li J]:e miner, i./. 139. 

 Striped Jafper. Kifvj an miner, l. p. 3 12, 

 Jaiper Agate. 'Jameijon miner. 1. p. 242, 



2. Compolcd of fragments angularly cruftofe. 

 Vcrtu'igfachat. Karjien Lejke miner, i. 140. 



3. With figures rcfcnibling landfcapes. 

 Landfchaltfachat. Kar.'hn Lejke miner. I. ^.145. 



4. Tn piinred annulations of different colours, 

 Rin^achat. KardenLcfke miner. 1. /»• 143. 



5. With figures refembling niofs. 

 Moofachat. Karjhn Lejke jninef' l. p. 145. 



6. With ficrures refcmblincr llellar dots, 

 Sternachat. Karllcn Leske miner, i. p, 146. 



Found in infinite varieties of proportion and d flribution of 

 parts, tinge of colours, haidnels and lultre, m Britain^ Ceylon^ 

 and rnoll parts of Europe, fometimes detached, fomecimes im- 

 bedded in clay, rarely in veins or a Ihladitical form, and 

 is ul'ed for rings, ornaments, and the decoration of nobler 

 edifices. 



62. AMYGDALITES. Confifting of various 

 rounded or elliptical ilones of different fizes, 

 iinbedded together, and forming an irregular 

 maib : occurring principally in mountains of a 

 later date, and generally mouldering when ex- 

 pofed to the air. Almond-Jione, 



A. With a ihlcoje bafe. 



rhaticus, Confifting of fleatite, and hornftone. 

 Storr Alpenr. 2, p. 2 1 4. 



Found in Dej'piner Alp in the country of the Grifonst pale green, 

 the hornflone grey. 



fjrnacum, Compofcd of fteatite, and harytes. 



Gilltcin. Storr AlpeiiV. 2. />. 51* 52. 



Found in the valley Urfcxeitt where the inhabitants, after cut- 

 ting it into thick plates, make kilns of it: colour greenifh- 

 grey, the barytes grey and rough with prominent glandules : 

 it is not eafily turned into vafes, and becomes full of cracks 

 in the fire, unlefs it be expofed to it in fufficientlj^ large 

 plates. B b 2 



