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place, however, it is not very common. Under similar cir- 

 cumstances it is met with at Torotzko in Transylvania, 

 and probably also at Dobsehau, Szirk, &c. in Hungary. It 

 likewise occurs in beds at Schneeberg in Saxony, at Kams- 

 clorf and Saalfeld in Thuringia, partly in newer rocks. It 

 is found in veins in various parts of Saxony, Nassau, the 

 Hartz, &c. ; and among these are some of the finest varie- 

 ties in imitative shapes, Gothite is found in the districts 

 of Siegen and Sayn ; the velvety varieties at Przibram in 

 Bohemia, several crystallized varieties, sometimes deter- 

 minable, in the vicinity of Bristol in England, and in the 

 lake of Onega in Russia. Granular clay iron-ore is found 

 in Eichstadt, in Wirtemberg, in Switzerland, in Salzburg, 

 and in the Tyrol. Rich varieties of the common clay iron- 

 ore occur in Bohemia, in Silesia, at Wehrau in Lusatia, in 

 Westphalia, but particularly in England and Scotland. 

 The kidney -shaped variety is met with near Teplitz in Bo- 

 hemia, Tarnowitz in Silesia, in Poland, in several districts 

 of Lower Stiria, &c. The pisiform clay iron-ore is found 

 in Swabia, Franconia, Hessia, and other countries. In some 

 of them, however, also the compact variety is often found 

 in caves in limestone, as at Wochein in Carniola, or also 

 in several of the highest limestone mountains of Stiria, 

 where it is met with in single specimens, as, for instance, 

 upon the Reichenstein near Eisenerz. 



5. The prismatic Iron-ore is by no means less important 

 in the manufactures of cast and wrought iron, than the 

 preceding species. The pig-iron obtained from melting its 

 purer varieties with charcoal in particular may be easily 

 converted into steel. 



6. DI- PRISMATIC IRON-ORE. 



Lievrite. JAM. Syst. Vol. III. p. 539. Man. p. 324. 

 Lievrite. Yenife. PHILL. p. 24. Lievrit. WERN. 

 Hoffm. H. B. II. 1. S. 376. Ilvait. HAUSM. II. S. 665. 

 Lievrit. LEONH. S. 366. Yenite. HAUY. Tabl. comp. 

 p. 42. Fer calcareo-silieeux. Traite', 2de Ed. T. IV. p. 9 1 . 



