NOME VI. GRANITE WITH SAPPARE. 93 



NOME VI. GRANITE WITH SAPPARE. 



This rock has only been recently observed. 

 The sappare is in small spangles, of a lively 

 blue, being interspersed among the common in- 

 gredients of granite. 



Saussure informs us, that he first received this 

 substance from the Duke of Gordon, among 

 other Scotish minerals; who informed him, at 

 the same time, that the Scotish name was sap- 

 pare*. Werner (whose fondness for the worst 

 of all nomenclatures, that derived from acci- 

 dental colours, has been ably ridiculed by Mr. 

 Chenevix), has, forgetting all due respect to the 

 great name of Saussure, most needlessly changed 

 this denomination for Kyanite y or blue stone ! 



NOME VII. LABRADOR ROCK. 



The celebrated opaline felspar, originally, as 

 is said by some, discovered by the Missionaries 

 in the transparent lakes of that country, while 

 others affirm that it is only found in the Island 

 of St. Paul, to the south of Labrador, has scarcely 



* 1901. 



