492 Topaz of Connecticut. 
hers. . Want of occupation is one of the great sourtes of 
mischief. Children ought never to be idle, but to be con- 
stantly employed from morning to night in benefiting them- 
selves or others. All our vacations are injurious to youth, 
and only serve the caprice or soning interest of the mas- 
ters, by prolonging the time necessary, and of course aug- 
menting their salary, for instruction. Occupation should be 
oO i 
physical labour so balanced as not to injure the health. 
None of our species can be too long kept at work ; there is 
nothing more easy than by habit to turn all useful and neces- 
sary ——— into an amusement, when life itself would 
become a pastime 
2. Topaz of Connecticut.—In the preceding ntimber. of 
this rere (Vol. X. p. 352) the existence of this locality of 
topaz, was announced, accompanied by a description and 
analysis of the mineral, by Professor Edward Hitchcock, 
and*Mr. B.D. Silliman. We have it now in our power to 
state, that, although the vein has not been, (as 
f ;) penetrated, more than two feet, considerable num- 
bers of the topazes ees been found, and they are beginning, 
as might be expected, to lose their weathered and unsightly 
appearance, and to assume more purity, “tr and beauty. 
en it is considered, that the effects of eathering ofte 
penetrate rocks, a veins, it could 
not be reasonably supposed ~ these sain (should the 
vein continue to at them at increa: asing depths, of which 
there seems strong probability should assume a fresh and 
perfect appearance, as to 1, colour, lustre, and soundness, 
until a depth is attained, res nd the effects of the ordinary 
meteoric agents. We have not visited the spot since the dis- 
covery of the topaz there, but the specimens brought by Mr. 
Lane, fori aes abundantly confirm the oan already 
nature in i 
d are interesting 
to the. eye of a mineralogist, although still too eaptriaall for 
the views of the lapidary or jeweller. 
Crystals are lying before us y in their dimensions 
bees, anc dapat | inch.* = Nene aes 
grega 
and quartz, and 
en yellow 
«a7, Hg coarse erystals of the weight of several peunds continue to be 
