LIST OF MINERALS. 3i7 



traverse the serpentine are not lieaved by the fis- 

 sures which cross them. — From tlie sand-bank. 



5. Scaly-talc^ leek and oUve-green ; of a greasy 

 aspect, tolerably soft, very friable, adheres strongly 

 to the tongue. — From the rocks of the coast. 



(i. Scaly-talc and SerpentinCy lying in flakes over 

 one another, crossed by amianth. The mountain- 

 green scaly-talc, clearly an intimate mixture of 

 amianth, (Asbestus ?) and steatite. — From the 

 rocks of the coast. 



7. Black contorted Clay-slate. The surfaces of 

 the lamella?, when newly broken, are shining, 

 striped brownish-grey. — Low rocks along the sea- 

 coast, at the foot of the serpentine-stone wall. 



8. Greenish-grey Sand-stone and Co?iglomerate. 

 Quartz grains united without visible cement, form 

 the chief mass, in which fragments of clay-slate and 

 heliotrop are imbedded. 



9. Heliotropy a large fragment from the. conglo- 

 merate, which is still united to it. 



10. Compact Green-stonCy with sprinkled iron 

 pyrites. — Fragment from the conglomerate. 



1 1. Brown yellow Sand-stonCy composed of quartz 

 grains and many fragments of clay-slate. — Forms 

 rocks which run into the sea at the foot of the ser- 

 pentine rock. 



12. Ferruginous, reddish-brown common /«.9/?er, 

 having a metallic lustre, and many small fissures, 

 which are filled up by calcareous spar. — From the 

 sand-bank — the bay. 



