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other magnesian minerals imbedded ; the polished pieces 
are handsome, and large slabs, such as might probably be. 
obtained, would be ornamental in architecture.—Ed. 
17. Fetid Dolomite. 
Extract of a letter from Professor Dewey, to the Editor. 
[ have found dolomite in Lee, east of Stockbridge, per- 
fectly fetid—as much so as any of the fetid carbonates of 
lime. On breaking, the odour is strong, and continues for 
bundant] 
some time ; and friction gives it off a stone 
Eineae 
has the appearance of dolomite, and not of the fetid lime- 
stones, and a solution of it in sulphuric acid gives magnesia 
in abundance. Dolomite is very abundant indeed in this 
county. I find that most that is usually called limestone, is 
dolomite. z 
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