‘, 
i2 Dr. Troost on Amber; §e. 
This is followed by a stratum of whitish grey clay, four 
feet in thickness, exempt from pyrites. This clay rests on 
a bed of white sand, in which the water is so abundant as 
to render it difficult to ee lower, . 
’ Note First, p- 9.—The Sicleesaes: existing aia this cater 
and that o f the Baltic, i is, Se ascribable. more to the local 
vide trees which produeed it. 
The amb ber found, one and'an half foot above the stratum of lig- 
nite is, i seit respect, equal to the Prussian amber, is exempt 
from | ‘no crust except some ferruginous sand cemented 
around it: in other lumps which are found in the bed of lignite, in 
contact with and sometimes wholly penetrated by pyrites, the amber 
has usually a thiek opaque crust; and the more it is in contact with 
this mineral, the more the colour deviates from that of the Baltic. 
According ic Hotsman, who has examined ee sah ihe amber 
_ seems not to be in contact sree iow. "As eeane Actin 9 are work- 
ed in ab 
with the 
sree iret to ieee: what sort 
ice , amber—at least s to be no doubt 
that smber owes: owes its origin to the eclehie kingdom: this Ras been 
the opinion of the oldest nations, whose histories have been trans- 
mitted to us by the fables of the ancients, as we learn from the 
beautiful fiction of the hazardous enterprize of Phaéton, where his 
sisters, bewailing the loss of their brother. find their feet fastened to 
the shore, their arms stretching out in flexible twigs, upon which 
| eS | PF { ap » foalliy 
1 a 
1g from € position in which we find the amber here, we 
have eto coaclnds that i it was already formed before i it was de i 
in the thas 
an the nature of niisbvers Tt inust ust have beena a vegetable resi esin, 
A apa the nature of copal, before it ene Dade with its parent 
it cannot be, as professor Stermstadt su ,a mineral ore, 
hickeved by the absorption of | oxigen nor, as is the opinion of 
r irae an inspissated m neral oil; nor again, as Patrin 
modified iby. tive and and d mineral acids, which has 
liquid eure fe been. odaeed by the ve- 
retabl ter they 1 Raenemae and. we should find it in 
the form > epee below the substances from which it was 
generated—this - ‘is not the case at Cape Sabl ble; we find it in the 
Stratum of liguite on its top, and one foot and a half above it.—And 
PSs Ts on Pe ae 
