MODE IV. STEATITE. 325 



The same, with elegant variegations of red. 



The same, greenish, in serpentine. 



White steatite, with black dendrites, from Sax- 

 Ony. 



Karsten mentions a massive steatite, which is 

 found in extensive strata at Thierschein; but he 

 does not distinguish between the soft and the hard 

 kinds *. 



" Steatite, crystallised in hexahedral prisms of a 

 middling size, terminated by six planes, the edges 

 formed by the meeting of the lateral and acumi- 

 nating planes, truncated, but in other respects cir- 

 cumstanced as usual, in massive steatite, from 

 the same pi ace. "f 



Soft steatite, called Spanish chalk, but probably 

 from the Alps of Dauphiny. 



Soft steatite, from New Caledonia, where the 

 savages mix it with their food. This custom is 

 also known to the savages on the Orinoco; nor 

 is it unknown in the German country of Lusatia. 

 The Arabs are said to use it in their baths instead 

 of soap, and it is also used as fullers' earth. 



Steatite, in basalt, from Skey, and other western 

 isles of Scotland. 





* Leske, 131. f Ibid. 



