TITANIUM. 



435 



Fig. 528. 



the vicinity of Ae village of Edenville. The crystals are sometimes nearly two inches in 

 diameter, and often have the surface pitted or striated. The colour is light brown. 



Five miles south of the village of Warwick, the same mineral is found in large crystals 

 and crystalline masses, of a greyish brown colour, often inclining to white on the surface. It 

 is associated with zircon, hornblende and iron ore. 



^''' ^^^' At Amity meadow, and a mile south of the village 



of Amity, crystals of sphene are also found, asso- 

 ciated with the minerals for which this region is so 

 noted. The crystals here are usually small, some- 

 times pitted, and in colour are similar to those just 

 noticed. The forms observed in this town are simi- 

 lar to those represented in Figs. 521 and 526 ; also 

 to Figs. 527 and 528. 



Putnam County. Sphene, massive and beauti- 

 fully crystallized, was discovered by Dr. Barret at 

 Coldspring landing, in 1822,* during the excavations 

 for the long buildings near the shore on the north side of the village. These crystals are of a 

 light brown colour, and exhibit a brilliant cleavage. This locality has long since been 

 exhausted (see Appendix to this species). 



Richmond County. According to Dr. Bruce, fine specimens of sphene were obtained in 

 a rock which was thrown out at the site of Fort Richmond, when the works were first com- 

 menced. The crystals were similar in colour and figure to those found at Ticonderoga, and 

 were imbedded in compact opaque feldspar, and in dark bottle-green hornblende.! 



St. Lawrence County. At Gouvemeur, sphene is met with in small black shining crys- 

 tals, imbedded in primitive limestone, associated with scapolite, apatite, etc. 



About two miles west of Oxbow, on the road to Rossie village, small light coloured crys- 

 tals are found associated with crystallized hornblende, pyroxene and feldspar. They are not 

 abundant. 



Westchester County. This mineral has been found in the vicinity of Peekskill, in an 

 aggregate of feldspar, quartz and hornblende. Near West-Farms, also, it has been met with 

 in very small reddish brown, oblique angled, four-sided prisms, generally bevelled on the ob- 

 tuse solid angles, in compact feldspar.| 



In Massachusetts, sphene both crystallized and massive, and similar to that from Rogers' 

 rock in Essex county, occurs in the limestone of Bolton, associated with pyroxene and pe- 

 Ulite. 



In New-Jersey, it is found in semi-transparent yellowish crystals, in white limestone, at 

 Newton ; also in wax-yellow crystals, in an aggregate of hornblende and feldspar, at Wan- 

 tage in Sussex county. 



• Amtrkan JovnaX of Sdenee, IX. 39. + American Mineralogical Journal, 240. 



X Pierce and Torrey. Cleaveland^t Mineralogy. 



