LIME. 



241 



Fig. 107. 



M 



M 



M 



Jefferson County. In tlic white limestone on llic biink of Vrooman lake, 

 six-sided crystals of apatite occur, from half an inch to five inches in length. 

 They arc of a fine green colour, and have their terminations sometimes 

 modified, as in the annexed Fig. 107. M on s 135° ; M on x 129° 13' 53" ; 

 a? on x 143° 7' 48". 



Lewis County. This mineral occurs in imperfect crystals, and in folia 

 of an emerald green colour, in the town of Diana, near Natural bridge. It 

 is associated with feldspar, scapolite, pyroxene and sphene ; the whole being 

 in white limestone. 



New-York County. At Corleer's Hook, it has been found both amorphous 

 and crystallized. It is usually in apple-green prisms, somctmics imperfect, 

 either long and slender or short and thick, imbedded in granite. It has also been obtained 

 elsewhere on the island of New-York, from veins of quartz traversing mica slate, in pale 

 or deep green prisms from two to four inches in length.* I am not aware that this mineral 

 has been recently found at these localities. 



Orange County. In this county, so rich in its mineral resources, there are several loca- 

 lities of apatite. About three-fourths of a mile 

 from Edenville, the late Dr. Young, of that vil- 

 lage, found a locality at which he obtained well 

 defined six-sided crystals, from half an inch to 

 twelve inches in length, and from an eighth to 

 one inch and five-eighths in diameter.t They 

 are often of a bright asparagus-green colour. 



Fig. 108. 



Fig. 109. 



and arc engaged in white limestone. 



Fig. 108 



and 109 represent the forms which have been 



observed ; the former being the pyramidee of 



Haiiy ; the latter having the edges of the prism 



and pyramid replaced by tangent planes, M on 



e 150°. I have found these crystals to contain 



a minute portion of fluoric acid. 



In the same vicinity. Dr. Horton has found pale blue crystals of a modificil form, associated 



with sphene in calcareous spar ; and others, of a greenish white, greyish white, or greyish 



green colour, associated with mica and hornblende. 



About two miles south of the village of Amity, Mr. Nuttall, many years since, found a 

 locality from which were obtained very fine and perfect crystals of an emerald and bluish 

 green colour, and nearly transparent. Small and imperfect crystals are also found near Two 

 ponds in the town of Monroe, and occasionally specimens arc met with at the Forshce iron 

 mine. 



• Piercn and Torrey. CkavdaniTs AUncrahgy. 



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