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9. Reddle — a very fine quality. Indian Pipes made of 

 this substance — Banks of lake Superiour. — Id, 



10. Sulphate of Strontian in distinct tabular 

 a light sky blue colour, three fourths of an inch in thelarges 

 diameter, lining a cavity in grey compact limestone which is 

 its native bed — Gross Island, mouth of Detroit river. — Id. 



11. Fibrous Gypsum Martin Isles — four miles from 



iMackinaw, the vein is too inches thick and tolerably hand- 

 some. — Id. 



12. lied Ochreous earth — Michigan territory. — Id. 



13. Galena^ a most beautiful specimen of the broad foli- 

 ated variety, exactly like that of the Missouri mines — seven 

 miles below the Ousconsin, on the east bank of the Missis- 

 sippi. The mines belong to the Sacs and Foxes, who are 

 said to be very jealous of their rights, — Id. 



14. Gypsum, superb specimen folia broad and curved 

 Manlius, Onondago county, N. York, south bank of the 

 gmat canal.— Id. 



15. Staurotide^ imbedded in mica slate — Alstead New- 

 Hampshire — Mr- J. D. Bradley. 



16. Serpentine, leek green with magnetic Iron imbedded 

 Cavendish, Vt. — Id. 



17. Asbestos — very dehcate — Mount Holly, Vermont. 

 Id. 



18. Made or Chyasolite. This mineral occurs in 



Charleston — Cornish — Croydon — Alstead and Langdon, N. 

 Hampshire — Bellows-falls and Westminster, Vermont. — Id. 



Charleston, New-Hampshire, 



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no greenish or bluish tinge. — Id. 



19. Mica in large plates — Alstead, New-Hampshire. — Id. 



20. Greenfi 



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54, Vol. 4, of this Journal mention was made of these minerals 

 as occuring in WindhamVt. Since that notice was written, we 

 have received very superb specimens equal to any from the 

 te^ European localities. The largest crystals of Actynolite 

 are half an inch in diameter, several inches long and of a rich 

 green colour. — Id. 



21. Sulphat of Barytes in limpid tabular crystals, occu- 

 pying cavities in sand-stone — along with quartz crystals^ 

 malachite, common sulphat of Barytes, ^. — Clieshire, 

 Connecticut, 



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