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ously with steel. It resembles the hornstone of Saratoga, 
N. Y. but iis colour js a shade lighter. 
18. “From the sepulchres of the kings north of Jerusa- 
lem.”” This specimen is compact limestone, approaching 
granular limestone. The mass is nearly milk white, but the 
surface, on one Of its sides, is of a blood red aspect, coloured 
perbaps, with an oxide of iron. It might be manufactured 
pie e very handsome marble. 
‘¢ Broken off from one of the doors in the tombs of the 
ee ” Nos. 18 and 19 are very similar minerals, and are 
both from the same place 
20. * From the tombs of the Sanhedrim, north of Jerusa- 
ie ”” The specimen appears to be an artificial production, 
omposed chiefly of lime, and painted on one side of a grass 
erdee colour. Itis fetid. On heated iron it phosphoresces, 
— a greenish whiie light. 
‘From the tomb of Jesse, near Hebron.” This is a 
reddish gray concep limestone. ‘* Hebron was built” says 
o-es, “seven years before Zoar in Egypt.” ‘ And Joshua 
blessed Caleb, and etie unto him Hebron for an inheciianaee 
This city is situate twenty miles south of Jerusalem. 
David’s first coronation took place. “ And the men of Judah 
came, and there they anointed David king over the house 
of Judah.” Here the rebellion of Absalom commenced, 
This was one of the “ cities of refuge.” ‘‘ Hebron is now 
only a village, standing partly on a plain, and partly ona 
mountain, from which is a pleasant prospect of the plain of 
Mamre, planted with vineyards. e peasants of Hebron 
cultivate cotton, which is spun by their wives, and sold at 
Jerusalem and Gaza.” (Volney. 
22. “ From the tomb of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, 
on Mount Olivet.””,. Common gray compact limestone 
23. “ From Mount Lebanon.” A reddish gray compact 
limestone. 
“From Mount Lebanon,” coloured brown on one 
side. 
25. “From Mount Lebanon, near the convent of Mar 
Hannah Tonere.” This specimen is a fine-grained, granu- 
lar eget ea of a gray aspect. 
26. “Fro ount penal near the cedars.” Gray com- 
ne nasi 
27 “From ‘Mount Lebanon.” Dark brown hornblende- 
rock. Itisa fragment of a globular mass, which may have 
