Notice of Minerals from Palestine. 2] 
nulactories. This is the first importation, in an unwrought 
state ; it requires little or no burnt clay with it. 
No. 10. Pipe clay from Gay Head, Martha’s Vineyard. 
0. 11. Sand from Brick and Lanes bank, Port Eliza- 
beth, New-Jersey. ‘This bank was opened about two years 
since, in consequence of our inquiries, and now supplies 
most of the eastern glass works. 
No. 12.. Sand from Lanesborough, Mass., which is con- 
sidered the best we have ever melted; but its inland situa- 
tion renders the expense of transportation an obstacle to its 
use. It is found in the form of white rocks, and is believed 
to abound on the banks of the North river, from which it 
night be transported cheaply. But no judge of the article 
has visited it to ascertain the fact. 
- No. 13 is a sample of the North river stone. — As this is 
merely a fine granular limestone, and of course entirely in- 
applicable to furnaces, it would be useless to mention it on 
the present occasion, were it not to correct the impression of 
the discoverers, who suppose it to be - It is 
quite unnecessary to say to a mineralogist, that the softness 
and effervescence with acids, render it perfectly easy to dis- 
tinguish limestone from quartz ; and that when the efferves- 
cence is languid, or even unobservable, as sometimes hap- 
pens in the case of dolomite, the inferior hardness is always 
decisive, 
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Art. 1V.— Notice of Minerals, &c. from Palestine, Egypt, &c. 
ina letter from the Rev. Isaac Birp, Missionary, to the 
Editor, dated Beyroot, Palestine, March 15, 1825, with re- 
marks upon the specimens, by the Editor, 
Dear Sir, 
As I shall never forget the obligations I am under to you 
asan instructor, so I cannot but gladly embrace every oppor- 
tunity which occurs to return your favours. 
ne of the remarks you made to me at our last parting was, 
to request me to send you any such interesting specimens of 
mineralogy as might fall in my way in this country ; and 
you were pleased to add, that their chief quality of interest 
would be, the circumstance of their location. J confess it is 
