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Address all correspondence to Arthur Chamberlain, Editor, 56 Hamilton Place, New York City 



On a New Cinnabar. 



The illustration given below shows 

 two examples of the most beautiful and 

 remarkable cinnabar ever discovered. 

 Strange to say it is a heathen; that is, 

 it is what Mark Twain would call a 

 "heathen Chinee." It was discovered 

 in Wanshanchang (Hamlet of Ten 

 Thousand Hills,) Tungyen Prefecture, 

 Province of Kweichow, China. Rather 

 a lengthy locality for this beautiful 

 mineral but it is deserving of it. 



The crystals are a bright, ruby-red 

 color, from translucent to transparent, 

 and in form are ordinary and interpene- 

 trating twins. The matrix is a pure 

 white quartz, and as these crystals oc- 

 cur in cavities with quartz crystals, you 

 can imagine the beauty of these speci- 



mens. Like all good things they are 

 scarce, probably two dozen all told. 

 With the exception of a half-dozen 

 which are on exhibition at the office of 

 Mr. A. H. Petereit, 81 and 83 Fulton 

 Street, New York City, they are scat- 

 tered among the leading universities 

 and mineral collectors. 



Cinnabar is found in other localities 

 in China, in Spain and at two localities 

 in California, but in no instance has it 

 ever approached the rare beauty of 

 these crystals. The illustration gives 

 the exact size. A cordial invitation is 

 extended to all readers of this maga- 

 zine to call on Mr. Petereit and see 

 these remarkable soecimens. As the 

 mines from which these were taken are 

 now filled with water and no more can 



THE NEW CINNABAR 

 From A. H. Petereit, New York City. 



