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Stromoe, not above ten or twelve miles distant from Thors- 

 havn ; a discovery somewhat mortifying, considering we could 

 iiave visited it with great facility. 



Of Calcedony we had likewise procured several very capital 

 specimens, all brought by the people to barter against tobacco ; 

 nor could we learn where they were to be found in situ, being 

 constantly told, that they were got loose upon the sum- 

 mits of the mountains, and by the pi'iest at Quivig, that 

 the place he found them in, was at that time covered with 

 snow. Two days before our departure, an accidental circum- 

 stance led to the accomplishment of what I so much desired : 

 a country man offered us some masses, having the appearance 

 of being recently detached, from some small barnacles which 

 adhered to them being still alive. This led us to inquire where 

 they were got ; and being Informed at Lambevig, within twelve 

 or fifteen miles distant, we determined to explore it. The 

 nearest approach to this place is by Skaalefiord, on the west 

 side of Osteroe. Here we landed at Glibre, and walked over 

 to Lambe, not three quarters of a mile distant, and having 

 there procured a boat, were set on shore among the rocks, a 

 little to the right of the harbour, where we soon found some 

 immense masses of calcedony. 



Our apparatus was now considerably impaired ; besides, the 

 rock was so situated, that nothing but mining tools could ef^ 

 fectually act upon it. These we had now neither time nor op- 

 portunity to apply, although we would certainly have done so, 

 had we come here earlier ; as it was, we procured some excel- 

 lent and interesting pieces of calcedony, as well as some capi- 

 tal specimens of chabasie. But the circumstance which afford- 

 ed me most satisfaction on this expedition, was to find the ca- 

 vernous calcedony in situ. I here saw plates of it of extraordi- 

 nary dimensions, one being four feet long by two in breadth. 



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