14 DOMAIN VII. COMPOSITE. 



NOME VI. MICA AND ACTINOTE. 



A composition rather uncommon, but found 

 in primitive regions, abounding in mica slate. 

 Mica and actinote, from Mount St. Gothard. 



NOME VII. ACTINOTE, SIDERITE, MICA. 



A composite rock of delphinite or actinote, 

 greenish siderite, felspar, and white mica, all in 

 little grains or plates*. " 



NOME VIII. QUARTZ, SIDERITE, OXYD 

 OF IRON. 



A rock, composed of quartz, siderite, mica, 

 and oxyd of iron ; together with a tabular fel- 

 spar, which he calls sanidine, a substance in silky 

 tufts, which he calls desmine, and another resem- 

 bling spinel, which he calls spindan, was dis- 

 covered by Nose on the banks of the lake of 

 Laach, near Andernach. See his mineralogy of 

 the mountains of the Rhine, quoted in the Jour- 



* Sauss. 1293. 



