26 Notice of Minerals from Palestine. 
This is evidently a portion of that kind of red granite of 
which Pompey’s pillar and many other ancient monuments 
are formed. It is the feldspar which gives the character to 
this granite—this part of it is flesh red, and predominates in 
quantity, while the quartz is gray and the mica black. 
20. ragment from Mount Zion, without the walls of 
Jerusalem.” 
This is a handsome piece of pottery beautifully glazed ; 
colour of the body grayish white—of the glazing mouse colour 
with white veins. 
21. “‘ Foundation of a monastery in Mount Tabo 
; sp0w, white, highly translucent and oyu. rile 
es Found at Acre.” 
© piece of oriental red porphyry, well polished. 
23. “* White marble from Nazareth. 
The same as the last but one. 
24, “* Prophet Jonas.” 
This isa flat calcareous pebble of a very dark gray colour, 
rounded and smoothed by attrition ; it is not mentioned to 
what circumstance in the propners life this has reference. 
25. “ Old foundation near He 
This is a shell limestone, and skies an odour like burnt 
oyster-shells whenever it is touched with an acid.” 
26. * Two O Pebties drawn up from under water in the 
Jordan, April 1824.” 
cd compact limestone, rounded and smoothed by attri- 
tio 
97. “From a fine sugar-loaf hill > from Mount Oli- 
vet, called Frank mountain, a little S. E. of Bethlehem; 
said to ice been the last fortified hill surrendered by the 
Crusad 
Conchoidal hornstone, verging on chalcedony ; seer 
~ gray, fires with steel abundantly. 
98. “From the sides of the cave said el be that of Saul 
and David, a few miles S. E. of Bethlehem 
Agray compact semi-crystalline Hineatene. 
29. ‘Formation from the deposit of the waves of the 
Dead Sea; multitudes of sticks, and stones, and other rub- 
bish on the shore are overlayed in this manner.” 
This 1s a calcareous tufa ‘deposited i in layers so very thin 
that twenty are-easily counted in a thickness of three feurths 
