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 LIST OF THE MINERALS 



COLLECTED BY DR. ESCHSCHOLTZ, 



AND PRESENTED TO THE CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF DORPAT. 



FROM THE COAST OF NEW CALIFORNIA. 



1. Common Serpentine crossed in all directions 

 by bkieish and greenish-white steatite, which en- 

 closes veins of amianthus, (Asbestus ?) : contains 

 tombac-brown bronzite in single folia : slightly 

 affects the magnetic-needle. — From the rock of the 

 sea coast, south of the fortress of St. John, at the 

 entrance of the Bay of San Francisco. 



^. Common Serjmntiney intermixed with scaly 

 talc : contains magnetic pyrites, interspersed in 

 small crystals, also small folia of bronzite. — Is 

 found with No. 1 . 



3. Serpentine approaching the noble , with 

 greenish-white earthy talc in undulating lamella:?. 

 — From a sand-bank in the Bay of San Fran- 

 cisco. 



4. Serpentine which approaches the noble. Fis" 

 sures separate the stone into angular and roundish 

 pieces, the superficies of which is spread over with 

 a thin layer of chalcedony, which is covered with 

 acicular arragonite. The amianth veins which 



