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Miscellaneous Localities 6; Minerals. 45 
a. By Geo. W. CanPENTER. 
i. Mengfifissen Gort mmiaerat is of a brownish 
red’colour, of a compact texture and occurs massive, im- 
bedded in the soil between Germantown turnpike, and 
Roxborough township line road, six and a half miles from 
Philadelphia, abundant. 
© 2. Actynolite, in compressed acicular crystals, traversing 
a granular mass, occurring on the tompaidhaps line road six 
miles from Philadelphia. > 
°3. Schorl, of a beautiful velvet black, in cylindrical, erys- 
tals more or less aggregated, occurring in granite rock on 
the old York road, five miles from Philadelphia, abundant, 
in this same rock occurs the white ery! described i in Vol. 
8 of this Journal, page 
4. Limpid Quartz, argsiallizedt in six sae prisms, ter- 
minated by six sided pyramids, with some modifications, 
occurring loose in a ploughed field between Germantown 
and the old York road. five miles from Philadelphia. 
5. Actynolite, of the glassy variety, in talcose rock, of a 
fine green colour, in irregularly grouped acicular erystals, 
eleven miles from Philadelphia on the Wisahicon creek. 
6. eae of Iron at the same locality (abundaut.) 
Te Ps s Quartz—these imperfect or false 
crystals are “generally opaque, surface dull and of a variety 
of forms ; it is sometimes also in small globular or reniform 
masses radiated from-the centre and in potryoidal clusters, 
occurring in-an old quarry between Germantown and Yor 
road, five miles from Philadelphia (abundant.) 
8. Crystals of Mica, imbedded in granite, in rhomboidal 
and six sided tables and prisms, on the Sov eatin line road 
six miles from Philadelphia. 
. Staurotide, in mica-slate, Wisahicop erenkc, six miles 
— emt 
0. Zircon, in reddish bbe. four sided prisms hon 1 
to ‘ inch in length at Schooley’s mountains ig 100 
ae from Belmont Hall, in sienitic rock detac 
- Phosphate _ Lime, i in long slender six fided prisms . 
of vie. green colour in granite rock at Germantown six 
and a half miles cin ‘Philadelphia. 
iladelphia, No. 294 Marketesirect, Oct. 14, 1824. 
