EET gee 
_ 1, Serpe 
about a mile south-we 
» os oe at Pawtuxet. — Iti is found sbcaotiy aa ee 
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Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. 225 
ous masses of malleable iron, which have been found in 
different parts of the world, on, or just beneath, the sur- 
face of the earth, affords almost decisive proof of their 
‘Common origin. The experiments mentioned in the no-— 
tice quoted above from Dr. Bruce would pene that the 
large mass in New-York forms an excepti 
larity of composition, but experiments inetesd ale 
cently yee Silliman, and stated by Col. Gibbs j is the 
hotice a 
ready alluded to, = detected nickel in this 
mass. There is much reason to belie 
had a common ori 
} an 
_ Le 
Ana. IV. —Notice of Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. 
1. By Srevern Tapes. and Tuomas H, Wess. 
nttne, at Ne wport. Ieis situated on the Neck, 
urring in rocks 
the secondary formati on. The prevai ng 
low, yellowish green, and apis black. . Whe 
it exhibits a variegated and beautiful appearance 
of four or five acres is covered with these ore 
reason t 
dS. E, of the vill: fei. 
rillaceous” ‘shale, at 
a asses, on the shore ! ; 
Vegetable impres essions 
They are found in water-worn fragments along the oat 
, for the Moteoee of half a mile. + Sots ot the as, a Phe im- 
‘sland. We find among them the Preris aquilina, the 
Comptonia ssplenifli, tiie Bellis perennis, 
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