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or five inches in diameter. It is principally hornstone; its 
cavities are lined with minute quartz crystals and la ayers 0 
chalcedony. Itis of a grey or black color—speeific gravity 
Th + hg ma of Lime, in bituminous limestone, 
exists 
8. The Hai Oanrie' is south-west of the meeting-house 
about three miles, and is in great quantities. It requires 
blasting, however, to obtain good specimens. 
wi Laminated Feldspar, of a pearly white color, is found’ in 
Bethlem, resembling in external characters the siliceous 
Eber. of Chesterfield. 
10. Plumose Mica, in Woodbury and Wishin fon: 
erry hes in reniform masses of minute fibres, and in 
Lice groups of fibrous erystals—in a vein in mica slate. 
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Fetid Quartz, in Litchfield, well characterized—of a 
dark greyish blue, (the common volor) and of a pure white, 
ble—massive—im reetlent foliated—-cross fracture uneven-— 
color dark brownish green—fissures stained by iron—soft, 
easily scratched with a knife—powder unctuous—streak 
white. Spangles of a hexagonal or nearly circular form 
appear on the fracture when ‘held to the light. Lustre of 
the to 
8 byte apireated on the surface of the 
mass—apparently six-sided prisms, truncated on all the an- 
gles, and, in consequence, having a = bere ages form. Asso- 
ciated with quartz, mica and oxide of iron 
REMARK, 
The Editor’s opinion being requested, respecting the 
last mentioned mineral, he has to add nothing more, than 
that he coincides in opinion with Mr. Brace, and that there 
isa great resemblance between the Litchfield pinite and 
that of Haddam.—Ed. 
*Dr. L. Smith will supply in exchange, any gentlemen with the South- 
bury minerals 
