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per-red, with a strong inclination to violet. This bluish exte- 

 rior resembles certain variegated colours, but the character is 

 the same ia its fresh fracture. The powder is reddish-brown. 

 The ore is brittle. Its hardness rather that of copper-nickel, 

 being scratched by felspar, but scratches fluor. The specific 

 gravity cannot as yet be ascertained, on account of the smallness 

 of the specimens Stromeyer's analysis is, nickel 31.207, anti- 

 mony 68.793; = 100. We gave it the name of Antimonial Nickel 

 (Antimon. Nickel). — Hausman. 



15. Carbonate of Strontites discovered in the United States. — 

 This comparatively rare mineral has been discovered at Scoharri, 

 New York, in the vicinity of Ballcave, which has already fur- 

 nished so many fine minerals. — Sillimaii's Journal for October 

 last. 



ZOOLOGY. 



16. The three Races of the Human Species, as connected with 

 different Languages. — Prichard has compared the distiibution 

 of languages with that of the races of the human species, and 

 has shown the contradictions which occur in regard to the origins 

 of languages, by assuming the existence of three distinct races ; 

 since by applying the principle of physical characters to the 

 consideration of the races, nations are united with one another, 

 which, in respect to their languages, belong to entirely distinct 

 classes. He instances that in the Mongolian race, the two great 

 tribes which compose it, the Chinese and the Mongolians, are 

 unnaturally united, since their languages proceed from entirely 

 opposite principles. The language of the INIongolians is poly- 

 syllabical, and has declensions and conjugations ; while the lan- 

 guage of the Chinese contains only words of one syllable, which, 

 without declension and conjugation, come into different relations 

 to one another by difference of accent and position. The reli- 

 gion of Fo, which is common to both nations, cannot be ad- 

 duced as an argument, as it was adopted by the Mongolians at a 

 later period. The American Indians, who, in respect to their 

 features, seem to resemble the Mongolians, have, on the contra- 

 ry, an entirely excluding peculiarity in their languages, in so far 

 as that the American languages, however different they may be 

 from one another, possess, nevertheless, a number of polysylla- 



