228 Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. 
2. By Tuomas H. Wess. 
1. Chlorite Tale is found in abundance at Foster, n 
the locality of cyanite mentioned in a former Nataber vol 
the Journal. It consists of narrow, elongated, compact 
a, or laming, of a dark green and greenish ‘black col- 
Associated with it we find, 
oe. Actynolite, compact and fibrous, of a dark green col- 
our, surface splendent, and longitudinally striated. It some- 
times runs —_ with the above, often passes at right an- 
rally occurs ines it irregularly. 
It is imbedded ina fine grained gran 
ommon Serpentine, in the hill upon which the Uni- 
versity stands, in 1 this town. Its colour is pir with a 
striped in some parts with pale black; 
ure is uneven, and it epnties; when moistened, an 
s — 
Der ; seston one, at Harris’ lime rocks, i in Smith- 
pas “The dente are <7 opera ig they 
mci abdes 
3 ae inety are 
6. White apis iy ried with yes and blue ani 
and spots. 
7. Scaly Tale, colour pearly white, at Dexter's me 
rock, i in do. 
“By Porcelain Clay at do. ; observed while ggg a well 
Pale at do. 
eh. Crystals of Quartz, at Seekonk, Mass. Some ase 
some groups have been found here, consisting of regular 
formed erystals of the common shape, held together by the 
Agree of a small quantity of dirt o 
2. Amethyst, at Westborough, Mass. The orystals: a 
: of the hexaedral form, and occur loose in the ground, fr 
which they are occasionally ploughed up. Many do no -. 
believe that they are natural productions, but suppose cha e 
to have been thus modelled by the inventive genius 0 of the the 
- original lords O f the 
. red man’s i 
So soil, and preseeve them as relies 
13. ‘Ochrey. at Oxide of hin. at Scitu 
