METALS. 85. Ferrum: 271 



Magnetic iron fand. Schmei/ser miner* 2. p* 90. 

 Magnetic fand, Thomfonchem. 4, /. 53. 



Found in Italy at the bafe of volcanic mountains, in the rivers 

 and on the (hores of Great- Britain, Siberia^ Greenland, Bo- 

 hemia, Jamaica and Ifidia, and fcems to be tlie fragments of 

 other ores waflied down and comminuted by torrents and the 

 waves of the fea : the grains are obtufangled, deep glittering, 

 very hard and magnetic, of a conchoidal frafture, not altered 

 by the blowpipe, melting into a black glafs with potafs and 

 into a green glafs with microcofmic fait; fpecific gravity 

 4,600. they probably contain fome filica, 



hepaticum, Attraded by the magnet, liver-brov^^n with a black ftreak, 

 ftriking fire with fteel, reducible to fomew hat cubical 

 fragments. 

 Found in the alps of Lapland^ compatl. 



nitem. Attraded by the magnet, compa6l, black with a red 



(treak, reducible to cubic (hining fragments. 

 Cron/i. min, feS* 211. 2. 3. 

 Found in the mines of Arendal in Nor<way% 



rhomhicum, Attra^ed by the magnet, compa£l, with a red flreak, re- 

 ducible t<i rhombic fragments. 

 Ferrum decuflatum. SyH. nat. xii. 3. p. 139. «. 14. 

 Found in the mines of Bitjburgen in S^weden, 



succinum. Attracted by the magnet, compa6l, black with a red 

 ilreak, breaking into indeterminate fragments. 

 Cron/t. mineral, fe SI. 211. 2. i. 

 Found in the mines of Siveden, 



lamellosum* Attra£led by the magnet, black with a red ftreak, la- 

 mellar. 

 Ferrum fquamofum. Syfi, nat, xii. 3,/, 139. ». 16, 

 Mmera lamcllofa. Cron/i. min. 211. 2. 4. 

 Lamellacd iron ore. SchmeiJJer miner, 2. p 89. 



Found in Nor-way, Rujffia, Siberia, India and Mexico, iron- 

 black, folid. Aiming, with a lamellar texture: contains a 

 large proportion of iron. 



Magnes* Magnetic, compa£l, of a common form. 



Ferrum attra«Rc.rium. Syfi. nat, xii. 3. p. 142. r, 27. 



Fenum polos oltend. Wall. fyH. 2. p 239. «, 3« 



Magnetic ir'n (lore. Ktr*wen m:n 2. />. 158. 



Magnet or !o dftnc. SchmeiJJtr mi^e\ 2. p. 88,. 



Magnetic iron-fivfie. ThcmloH chem. 4. />• 53. 



