Notice of Minerals from Palestine. 2, 
of an inch; as the mass is coneave and convex, it looks at 
first like an oyster shell. ; 
30. “ Kedron and Cedron.” 
The fragments that are thus labelled are calcareous stones, 
both primitive and secondary, not bearing any strong marks 
of attrition. 
31. “* Two pebbles from the brook Cedron. 1824.” 
One of these is very interesting : it is a fragment probably 
once detached froma rock of mica slate, the mica being al- 
most black, but the most interesting feature of the stone is, 
that it is composed principally of beryl, there being several 
distinct and beautiful crystals of a deep sea-green, besides a 
mass of less distinct configuration ; it must evidently be a 
stranger in the bed where it was found. 
32. “From the temple of Carnac.” 
Trap; the hornblende has an almost vitreous appearance. 
33. “Carmel.” sp 
Flint well characterized, looking almost exactly like the 
English flint, being like that in the form a of grotesque no- 
dule, and its dark colour penetrated to the depth of a line or 
more by a shade of gray ; derived, evidently, from the cal- 
careous mass in which it had been imbedded, and which ap- 
peared, from the adhering pieces, to be rather compact lime 
stone than chalk. The adhering matter effervesced with 
acids, and gave out the smell of burnt oyster-shells. 
34 “Jerusalem Much of the marble seen in Jerusalem 
is of this colour and quality.” 
This is a compact limestone, clouded with flesh red-and 
ray. 
. 35. “ Broken by a Mussulman boy fram the mosque of 
Omar in Jerusalem; supposed to occupy the site of Solo- 
mon’s temple.” 
There are three pieces which are the same as 34. 
36. ‘‘Common stone of the mountains of Gornoo, where 
are the tombs of the kings in Egypt.” ; 
Three pieces of compact limestone, dull, and very little dif- 
fering from the compact marl. of Beyroot, (44.) in which the 
h are contained. There is alsoa large and very perfect 
petrified shell fish from the same place ; it is a bivalve. : 
37. “ Jordan.’ 
Two waterworn calcareous pebbles. 
38. ce Tyre.” 
