232 Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. 
Indurated Talc, Chlorite oe Loam. Its Lamine are 
from 6 to 12 inches in length, of a al fege- _ 
locality isin the middle of the road, and 
few years since by the workmen in Septirick the eae at 
ace. I obtained from ten to twelve hundred weight. 
as. B. Halsey was the first mineralogist who ob- 
ed specimens at this place—(about two years ago.) _ 
usciculite of Mr. Hitchcock, on Mica Slate 1 mile N. E. 
of Woonsocket vill lage. 
Micaceous Oxide of sree in quartz—Blackstone loa: 
Ivy Jonnson 4 miles N. N. W. from ee Gran- 
ater Limestone,’ Steatite, Indurated aisles Rege oath k, and 
varieties of Tremolite. ae 
sie c " and ra 
nsocket Hill is about 
mah sillanes Smithfield. It ex- 
ttherly and southerly, and is a 
qualities 
pears on ¢ surface on various parts. of the ae “The 
i tariditaict = See = anes cliffs a 
omecttes aod al ote I N: 
stone is ale and some of it is easily quarried. ayes 
of it is easily pulverised and very white, other parts of it 
are hard to break and traversed by veins of compact 
artz. The Quartz ofthis rock is granular and of an- 
gular structure, alittle yellowish, and some of it is reageh 
ica is reddish and white. This stone has the 
property of withstanding the effects of heat, beyond any 
other, and has been transported in waggons 50 or 60 miles 
for furnace hearths for 40 or 50 years. It is called ‘ the 
furnace stone,” w with tallow, on 
what the mowers ar rifles, it answers extremely wll 
sharpen their scythes, and has long been used by 
iy eS 
) It loses some of its sharpr 3 and strength by being po 
dimpsied | ina Neat. : Ba t 3 thousand dozen woul 
average, perhaps, for ten . . 
Nore.- . Robinson vail exclani the mi aoe 
Rhode-Island for those of other districts. 
