226 Miscellancous Localities of Minerais. 
, afew months since, over the minerals which te 
2, Brow ita ar, at the same place. The planes of the 
ptale, which are brown and ay are curved, and the 
3 Gras earth. On the banks of a creek, between South- 
bury and Woodbury, Con. the writer collected a green sub- 
stance, meh on examination was found to be green earth ; if 
isa 
«he ioe thyst, A considerable ae of detached, imper- 
fect-crystals, of a pale colour, a “a veer transparent, has 
been found. in Voluntow tr in tee alluvial bank of a 
which was excavated for the wheel of a mill, cesone- 
ins, t 2 of a mile from his tavern, 0 
r ding from one Chestnae till to Stonington. 
5. vActynolite. Very beautiful actynolite was discovered 
last: autumn, in Cranston, R. J. about halfa mile north of the 
iron..ore bed, in the woods, on Mr. Nicholas’s farm. It is 
found in fragments mostly covered with earth, which appears 
to have been thrown out, and the rock blasted, many years 
since, in.making an excavation. Some masses consist of dis- 
tinct brilliant crystals in talc ; other masses consist of pure 
crystals, of glassy actynolite, radiating from centres, of a 
vee greencolour. This locality was kept very secret, until it 
me known this summer, when the proprietor, finding so 
many anxious to obtain specimens, concluded it must be very 
valuable, and the replies of some, that good returns had been 
os for what had been sent to New-York, confirmed him 
and-determined him to secure a part of the pro- 
fits to himself, by charging most extravagantly. This cirgum- 
stance shows the i impolicy, as well as the impropriety of de- 
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