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Description of Minerals from Palestine. 337 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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Ant. XX.—Descr iption of Minerals from Palestine, | 3 
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A Frew months since, | had the pleasure to receive a box 
of minerals, and with them, a number of other objects of 
curiosity from the Rev. Pliny Fisk, American missionary to 
Jerusalem They were collected by this gentleman him- 
self, in Esypt, , Greece, and Palestine. The following is a 
Holy Land. The lave] accompanying each mineral, in Mr. 
Fisk’s handwriting, is accurately copied, and placed imme- 
diately after each number. ‘The name of the article is then’ 
given, and such remarks and quotations are subjoined, as 
are thought to be illustrative of the mineralogy and geology 
eames niost interesting of all countries. 
. “ Taken out of the river Jordan ‘right against Jericho,’ 
aks 4, 1823. This is a rolled hey of white carbonate 
of lime containing thin veins of qua 
«From the walls of a ruined pene on the plains of 
Jericho.” It is an artificial composition of siliceous and cal- 
careous pebbles, varying in magnitude from a pin’s head to 
semi- -transparent. 
3. “* From the banks of the Jordan, where it issues from 
the lake of Tiberias.’’ This is a dark green hornblende, 
partially crystallized, through which are sparingly scattered 
small particles of decomposing limestone. ‘ On the shores 
of the lake of Tiberias, we found pieces of a porous rock 
resembling the toadstone of England: its oar were filled 
with zeolite.” Clarke’s Travels, Vol. IL. 
he soil, as you descend towards ea a vile situ- 
ate on the-south-western shore of the lake of the same name, 
is black, and seems to have resulted from the fection 
of rocks, which have a volcanic appearance. The s 
fragments. scattered over the oe were wisredelsider a 
Vou. 
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