198 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
Journal. “Coccolite green and red,” the catalogue informs 
us, is found in Charlotte, Vermont, and Professor Cleaveland 
is “ibid for authority. if any one ‘ill take the trouble to turn 
to the article, in Cleaveland’s valuable system of mineralogy, 
he will find, that reference is made to me. Indeed, the error 
must be charged to my account. It occurred i in this manner. A 
uzzy, who at a Vt. 
the Monkton porcelain earth, into China wa re, gave me, in 1810, 
a mineral, which, he stated, came from Charlotte. I seit a part 
of it to Prof. Cleaveland, to be named. He called it Coccolite. 
I also published a brief notice of it in the tere ary — Philoso- 
elan 
taken. Soon after this, Mr. Muzzy died. I made roan enqui- 
ion on the subject. ve since been a number of times in 
Charlotte, and. esliatisted myself to fe it, but siwae failed of 
I now state, a 1 o know 04. 
ss 5 an 
ence of Coatdlite, in - town 
Dr. Comst as 
found in abundance, ste of various colors,” in Chariot tte, and 
no information Pespeoting the quantity found. 
ayes tit may be asked, ‘“‘ whence came the specimen, affirmed 
vein is not Coccolite;’’ nor was the specimen in question. ‘It 
was colophonite. I have myself ake hundreds of s 
from the vein, precisely like the one transmitted to Prof. C. 
- This is the simple history of the error. I hope it will now be 
Guiitevated from the works in which it is published, and no more 
ied. 
weusilite—red, brown and black—is very abundant, near Ro- 
cat 
argillaceous siate quarried, at the place called horse- 
heaven. A very limited quantity has been quarried, for grave 
stones, and al for other uses, half a mile or more, bela, 
Be 
“Horastone” Cornwall Con. * on the fete J atte Matthews’ 2 
