NOME IV. RUNITE. 



HYPONOME I. 



White and green. 



HYPONOME II. 



With violet spots on the base. 



NOME IV. RUNITE. 



This rock is of rare occurrence, and has often 

 oeen found to serve as a gangart to the topaz, 

 t is composed of felspar in large plates, inlaid Description, 

 vith crystals' of grey quartz ; which, when cut 

 ransversely, offer angular figures, of which the 

 greater part have the form of the Arabic nume- 

 al 7 ; while the others are more or less regular, 

 jresenting a rude appearance of Hebrew cha- 

 acters*. The resemblance of Runic letters is Name, 

 ar more exact, whence the rock is here called 

 [lunite. 



The graphic granitel of Autun is one of the 

 nost celebrated: the felspar being of a pale 

 ose-colour, while the crystals of quartz are grey, 

 small, and infinitely multiplied. Brard regards 



* Brard, 2Q5. 



