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Notice of Minerals from Palestine. Re 
A light gray semi-crystalline limestone, feebly translucent 
on the edges—seemsto have beena very ineligible substance 
for a statue—geologically it appears to belong to the transi- 
tion class. : 
ee < From the temple of Tartyra, Upper Egypt. Mr. 
isk. 
This is a fine-grained loosely coherent red sand-stone, 
without beauty, in small pieces, but it might still have form- 
ed handsome structures. 
13. “Fragment from the temple of Carnac, being the 
common stone of Egypt. From Mr. Fisk.” 
One of these pieces is a white, and the other a black 
limestone—the latter appears to be identical with No. 9. ° 
15. % Gethsemane and Holy Sepulchre.’ 
This, being merely a petrified shell, is probably a stranger 
in the place where it was found, and came there by chance. 
16. ‘* Mouth-piece of a pipe from Jerusalem.” 
This is composed of handsome reddish variegated com~ 
pact marble in the form of tubes and oyvoidal shaped pieces, 
the latter having only the same bore with the tubes ; only one 
of the pieces smelled of tobacco; they are rather elegantly 
turned and polished. ‘I'wo other pieces, labelled Tyre, ap- 
pear to be exactly similar. — ies 
17. ‘From the ruins of Tyre.” ie es 
‘A piece of well-characterized granite, with reddish feld- 
spar, gray quartz, and almost black mica. Fs es. 
18. “ Picked up at Tyre.” 3 —- 
A piece of variegated compact marble as large as the 
hand—cut and moderately polished ; its colours are clouds 
and veins of white, gray, brown, reddish, and greenish lines, 
19. “ Red granite from a wallin the city of Tyre, and 
doubtless from the ruins of a splendid temple near by, a part 
of which is still standing—probably originally from Egypt.” 
Vor. X.—No. 1. 4 
