Lvealities of Minerals. 
Arr. V - —_— Localities of Minerals, cammunica- 
ed by various persons. 
aS By Professor. J. F. Dawa, of Hanover, N. A. 
1 Hornblende. Superb specimens of crystallized horn- 
blende, imbedded in lamellar hornblende, or confusedly ag- 
gregated—bladed and promiscuous, in quartz; Iron mines, 
Franconia, N. H. 
Garn t. Amorphous and imperfectly crystallized—the 
faces of the crystals remarkably smooth and perfect; Fran- 
conia mine se 
3. Evidote. Crystallized; same pla 
. Green quartz. Containin ng hornblende—colored by ep- 
neoni 
and of various extent. The fibres are intimately united, and 
are curved in every direction. Franconia 
6. Staurotide. Franconia. Sulphuret of Copper. Franco- 
nia. 
7. Cyanite. Of a light bluish grey. Hartford, Vt. 
8. Sulphuret of Iron. Deeply truncated on the angles of 
the cube, forming a solid of fourteen sides. Hartford, Vt. 
- Galena. In a vein of quartz traversing mica slate. 
Lebanon, N. H. 
10. Granular Argillaceous Oxide of Iron. Sharon, Vt. 
11. Carbonate of fron. In rolled masses of quartz, on the 
banks of the Connecticut. Hanover, N. H. 
12. Plumbago or Graphite. Lar = specimens—equal to the 
Borrowdale. Bristol, N. H. This has just been discover- 
ed—it is abundant; five hundred e008 were sent to Bos- 
ton as asample, as ‘the owner informs 
At the Franconia iron mine, near ie Falls I noticed a 
peculiar slag, which resembles perfectly some varieties of 
pumice-stone. 
2, By Mr. Srrupen Taytor, Preceptor of a Charles- 
field Street Academy, at Providenc 
1. Quartz Crystals are found pure and well defined, from 
one to two inches in length and from one third to three 
