130 DOMAIN IX. ANOMALOUS. 



NOME XI. BERYL ROCK. 



This was discovered in France, near Limoges, 

 by le Lievre. It had been used in paving the 

 highway, and is seldom of a good colour, being 

 generally of a greyish white, though some speci- 

 mens offer a tint of green. It is however rather 

 a vein-stone, though found in large masses, as it 

 runs through the middle of a vein of quartz in a 

 granitic region*. 



NOME XII. GARNET ROCK. 



The red garnet, of which this beautiful rock 

 is'chiefly composed, contains from 20 to 41 

 parts of iron, according to analyses of Klaproth 

 and Vauquelin. The green garnet is even some- 

 times fused as an ore of iron. 



In his System of Mineralogy, Cronstedt re- 

 garded the garnet as entitled to a peculiar place 

 in the rank of earths ; a singularity which would 

 seem to show that he had a distant view of the 



* Faujas, Geologic, Paris 1809, v l' P art > P- 2()8 - See parti- 

 cularly Journal des Mines, v. 641. The analysis of Vauqueliaf 

 found the same ingredients as in the emerald. 



