PHYSIOGRAPHY. 



Skorodile Smaltine. 



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3. It occurs in the primitive mountains of Schwarzenberg in Saxony, 

 with Arsenical Pyrites ; at Loling near Httttenberg in Carinfhia, with 

 Leucopyrite. Beautiful specimens have been brought from Brazil.* It 

 occurs also in several of the Cornish mines, where it has commonly 

 been called Martial Arseniate of Copper. 



SMALTINE. Octahedral Eruthleucone- 



Py rites. 



Primary form. Regular octahedron. 

 Secondary forms. 



i. 



Primary, with the angles truncated. 



Dcbschau, Saxony. 



3. 



Cube, with edges truncated. 

 Schneeberg, Saxony. 



5. Fig. 395. 



2. 



Cube. 

 Schladming, Stiria. 



4. 

 Rhombic dodecahedron. 



6. Fig. 396. 



Schneeberg. 



Schneeberg. 



Cleavage, traces in the direction of the primary faces, as 

 well as those parallel with the cube and dodecahedron ; the 

 first, a little the most distinct. Fracture uneven. Surface 



* A considerable quantity of this rare mineral was a few years since 

 brought from the western coast of South America to Baltimore, to be 

 smelted, from whence it was re-shipped to England, before its true nature 

 was detected by the mineralogists of this country. 



