80 JOURNAL OF THE 
tourmaline, garnet and the beryl as accessory minerals. 
‘he country rock is a gneiss and biotite schist. 
The emerald beryl has the characteristic green color 
of the gem and some of the crystals are transparent. 
They all have the hexagonal prism well developed, but 
none were observed that showed any terminations. The 
crystals vary in size from less than a millimeter up to 
eight millimeters in diameter. They are found imbedded 
in the quartz, feldspar and biotite schist, but are for the 
most part near the contact of the vein with the schist, 
The most transparent and deepest green crystals ob- 
served were either entirely surrounded by the schist or 
close to the contact. Those in the quartz were usually 
more transparent than those found imbedded in the feld- 
spar. The color of the crystals varies with their loca- 
tion in the vein, those nearest the schist being of the em- 
erald variety, whiie those farther away are pale green or 
yellow. 
The yellow or cream colored beryls are very abundant 
though the vein. The crystals vary considerably in size, 
from those hardly 2™ in diameter to one that measured 
sR daca 
The locality as yet has not been developed sufficiently 
to demonstrate whether it will warrent its being werked 
for gems. Both Col. Rorison of Bakersville, and Capt. 
Isaac English of Spruce Pine report that crystals have 
been found from which good gems were cut. 
GRASS GREEN CYANITE.* 
The mineral to be described occurs on the farm of 
Tiel Young, near North Toe River. Yancey Co., North 
Carolina, a few miles from Spruce Pine, Mitcheli Co. 
Some exceptionally large crystals of a grass-¢reen col- 
or were obtained by the author during the summer of 
*Am, J. Sci. Vol. V, 1898, p. 126. 
