54 Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. 
ss x- * 8, By Jacos Porter. 
1 Blue Quartz, of a good colour, in etiam masses, 
Plainfield 
as. Radiant Quartz, in considerable quantity, Shelburne. 
3. Quartz, a singular variety, Williamsburg. ‘“ This 
mineral,” euys a writer in the Hampshire Gazette for July 
14th, 1824, “has the form of the hogtooth spar, incrusted 
with very minute crystals of quartz, but on breaking it is 
to be hollow with larger crystals at its base, or in 
some 4h ee it is entirely filled up with semi-crystal- 
lized qua 
4. feces Mica, beautiful, Bellows Falls. 
8. Scapolite,t very abundant by = road side, about a 
mile east re) Hall’s tavern, Charlem 
6. Epidote, Rowe and Win dione "Wells —also at Plain- 
field, both ‘crystilified and granular ; and at Williamsburg 
in nape a apeiier sed beautiful. 
e, of Dewey, Plainfield, in considera- 
ble quantities. Ti i perfectly well characietined many of 
the specimens being elegant and even superb. is inter- 
esting mineral has also been seacvered at Suliebury, Con- 
necticut, by Charles A. Lee. It is well characterized, al- 
though less rar than that, which is found at Cumming- 
ton and Plain 
8. Liaifirn Asbestos, in serpentine, Zoar. H. M. Wells. 
9. Fasciculite, of Hitchcock, Charlemont. H. M. Wells. 
10. ae) in large and beautiful crystals, associated 
with tal Wells. 
yi Siatir, Rowe, H. M. Wel 
12, Magnetic Oxide of Tron, in eantifel octaedral i 
dei ‘ii chlorite at Rowe, also at Zoar. H.M. Wells. Also 
in octaedral crystals in ewig wee acsptisliG: at Windsor, 
also in similar crystals at Haw 
13. Carbonaie of Iron, Piainfc. It is beautifully erys- 
tallized in rhombs, which are nearly white, have a shining 
surface, and are frequently curved or undulated. 
* Comffiunicated for the Berkshire Lyceum. 
+ For my knowledge of this and several of the we localities | am 
indebted to Doctor Hezekiuh M. Wells of Windsor 
