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JUiscedlaneous Localities of Minerals. 395 
2. By Dr. Samuel Robinson, with Remarks on Spurious 
em ; Localities. te : 
0 THE EDITOR: 
DEAR 
In eke the “ Catalogue of American mci of 
which there was.a aoe in the last number of you 
Journal,the auth ted the locality of no mineral whith had 
whi published Sahin his iid vote SS a few instances . 
calities are “genealy Peblighed, press the spot, 
but merely naming the ‘lownahipe The ab re had but few 
épportunities of detecting such instances, which are the more 
unfortunate, as they tend to deceive the public, and to sen 
ead the mineralogist who is travellin for the purpose 
collecting specimens.* The author had two objects in view, 
in republishing all localities: to induce mitiersogints to for- 
ward to the American Journal, or some other periodical wo 
a list of all such localities as have been exhausted, and of 
such as never existed,which may come within their knowledge 
and to notice any errors they may discover i in this cataloguo— 
and also to avoid th 
lities which were eek A writer in’ ‘the mb aon 
n ate 
ro which ¢ cannot be perfectly relied on.” 
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* author is not aware that any locality of ee new ew mineral, in 
New-Euglani, has yet been found to be incorrect, wi ene excepto 
the idocrase, of ag sbury, has been found to be a variety rat garnet. 
Catalogue, p. 2 
+ See ped a ey KS 88, « Common Serpentine,” &e. 
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