NOME VIII. KOLLANITS, 9Q 



around particular pebbles, or in distinct parts, 

 arising from the influence of the oxyd of iron. 



This is the celebrated pudding-stone of Eng- Pudding-stone, 

 land, so much in request in foreign countries ; 

 but this name commonly exciting a smile among 

 the illiterate, and the appellation being since 

 enlarged to a great number of glutenites* of a, 

 different nature and origin, forming entire chains 

 of mountains (while this is confined to a very 

 small district in England, and is found no where 

 else in the world), it has been thought proper to 

 distinguish it by the name of Kollanite ; derived 

 from the Greek*, denoting its appearance of 

 being cemented together. 



The pebbles also, which are inlaid in this Noble flint. 

 beautiful substance, seldom belong to common 

 flint; but to an intermediate kind, between flint 

 and chalcedony, which, in the imperfection of 

 the science, has not yet been characterised. 

 Karsten, in his catalogue of Leske's collectionf, 

 has mentioned, among the minerals of Poland, 



* KoXAa cement: it is also used by Uioscorides, and others, for 

 iron, which in the mineral kingdom forms an almost universal 

 gluten. See Collini sur les Agates, p. 156. 



In words from the Greek, the original and English K if preferred 

 to the Latin and French C. 



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