24 Notice of Minerals from Palestine. 
It isa calcareous animal relic of that convoluted form 
greet called Se screw-stone 
** Dead-Sea.”’ 
Apparenty a variety of ae eeen tufa. 
5. ** Water of the Dead 
Fora ene of this sare see Professor Hall’ S paper in 
the last number of this Journal. 
6. * Plucked fron one of the fipest of the cedars of Leb- 
anon, by P. Fiske, Oct. 6, 1823.” ‘* Ball from the 
cedars of Lebahen a few of which a remain thirty or 
forty aie N. E. of Beyroot. P. F. 1823.’ 
€ cones are two or three inches long by about two 
in iaraetcr in the largest part; their colour is dark brown, 
and they have an agreeable aromatic smell ; they are rather 
ber shaped than conical. : 
“Chip from the cedars of Lebanon.” 
his has very little vivacity of colour, and is nearly inodo- 
rous ; oo appears inferior in the beauty of its grain to our 
cedar: 
8. “ People say that pheog are found petrified on 
Carmel ; this was a specim 
Mr. Bird professes cakes more than to give the poreee 
impression ; he was himself too well acquainted with m 
rals to mistake these specimens. They are nodular kiche 
stone of a light gray colour, lined in their cavities with innu- 
merable crystals of quartz, thickly grouped together in bril- 
liant drusy cavities, forming irregular geodes. Doubtless if 
the Mussulmen regard this mass as a petrified melon, they 
he say that the quartzcrystalsare the seeds turned to stone. 
. * Bituminous sa rought by a mussulman from what 
his a call the real tomb of Moses, near the dead sea—~ 
a common stone in this quarter.” 
This is a black bituminous limestone, giving its peeuliar 
edour very pene ame by heat, and effervescing with acids ; 
it is dull and not translucent even on the edges ; its fracture 
is conchoidal, and if it would beara polish, it would evident- 
Wp foum a black marble. 
0. “ Found ina road near the town of Hebron—probably 
Hons the glass works.” 
isa very ie aes glass, almost grass green—it is 
easily scratched by s 
11. “* Broken by Ms. Fisk ae a statue in the temple of 
Carnac in Thebes, Upper Egypt. 
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