DOMAIN IX. ANOMALOUS. 



this as the most beautiful of all. It is found 

 sites - near Autun, in the department of the Saone and 

 the Loire, and particularly at Marmagne. There 

 is also found, in the environs of Autun, a white 

 graphic granitel, with little crystals of grey 

 quartz. Champeaux, an engineer of the mines 

 of France, discovered the rose-coloured kind of 

 Marmagne, of which small tables might be 

 formed. 



That of Corsica is of a yet paler rose-colour 

 than that of Autun, while the crystals of quartz 

 are larger and more distant from each other. 

 There are also some specks of bronze-mica> 

 which do not occur in that of Marmagne ; but 

 it is capable of an equal polish. 



That of Scotland is of little importance, as the 

 crystals of quartz are distant, and not sufficiently 

 apparent. It is found near Portsoy. 



That of Siberia appears in two distant sites j 

 the Uralian mountains to the north of Ekaterin 

 burg, and in Daouria near the river Amur ; the 

 felspar being of a yellowish, or reddish white, 

 laminar, and glistening*. It is charged with 

 crystals of smoky quartz, which may be com- 

 pared to Runic letters j and is accompanied with 



* Chatoyant, derived from the 'eye of the cat j it has scarcely a 

 corresponding term in English. Refulgent ? 



