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Beautiful ferruginous yellow crystallized quartz, — Blue 



Ed^e or South Mountain. 



Lamellar Quartz. — Nine miles from Baltimore. 



Handsome Porphyry, — Nicholson's Gap, Blue Ridge, 

 Pennsylvania, crystals red and distinct. 



Broad foliated Felspar. — Flesh-red, very fii^e, nine 

 miles from Baltimore, 



Brown haematite. — Thirteen miles from Baltimore, York 

 Road. 



Quartz. — Elegantly stained blue and green, by carbonat 

 of copper, Blue Ridge. 



Bdterspalh. — Very handsome, forming a vein in the 

 compact hmcstone, nine miles from Baltimore- ' 



Apatite* — Red crystals in quartz and felspar. 



Analcime and Mcsotype. 



Fine black tourmalin in veins in gneiss. 



Elegant brown tourmalins, twenty miles from Balti- 

 more. 



Mass of Adularia in crystals with clorlte. — Found in a 

 brook near Baltimore, the vein not discovered. 



Most beautiful Epidote. — With green and other shades of 

 copper scattered in quartz ; the blue is prevalent, abun- 

 dant in the Blue Rid^e. 



Quartz and epidote, with green carbonat and red oxid of 

 copper and native copper, Blue Ridge, abundant. 



Other Localities. 



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.irragonite, beautifully crystalized, Bermuda. 



Do. in geodes and cavities, forming the cement 

 of a siliceous pudding stone, near Schenectadj.— Dr. Mur- 

 dock. 



Iron Sand is found in great quantities on Block- Island, as 

 appears by a M. S. letter of Peter Oliver to Dr. Elliot, 

 Dec. 14, 1761. 



.^7nher was found near the Delaware, in West-Jcrsy, in 

 detached pieces, near one pound weight, yellowish, nearly 

 transparent, and fitted to make good cane head. Bar- 

 train's M. S. letter to Dr. Elliot, Dec. 2, 1762. 



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