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cies, and not the hexagonal prism, as has generally been supposed. A — 
few specimens have been found striated longitudinally like ordinary crys- a 
tals of the species. == © ; 
The accompanying figures represent three of the best specimens I have 
_ obtained of the natural size. 
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A single attempt at analysis has been made, but without obtaining re- 
sults in any respect peculiar; a more critical analysis is desirable. 
The first specimens of this mineral were discovered in the winter of 
1837-8. They occur in a vein of feldspar which traverses one of the 
gneiss quarries on the east side of the Connecticut river, nearly opposite 
the Congregational meeting house* at Old Haddam. - 
Specimens continued to be found, though not very plentifully, for two 
years or more, but none as I can learn have been found for a year past; 
and the best ones are now held very high by the workmen of the quarries. 
Wesleyan University, May, 1840. 
T cannot learn that any more specimens have been discovered since the 
above date.—Jan. 7, 1841. — 
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and invite their communications, in compliance with the request of our 
correspondent, Mons. Morin, engineer of bridges and causeways, and 
correspondent of the meteorological society of London, who dates from 
Veroul, 220 miles N. E. of Paris. 
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ological undertaking, I have the honor to solicit you to engage the ree 
locality, at which 
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* Within six or eight rods of this house is the chrysobery! 
several other minerals are also found, as the columbite, automolite, zircon, 
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