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An interior view of the stone is no less peculiar. The pearly 
white color of its basis and its feldspathie crystallization, at first 
view, make it difficult to regard it as any thing else than a de- 
mposing mass of albitic granite. A nearer inspection, however, 
outistice the observer, that the. white. substance: (chladnite, which 
is nearly as tender as Jaumonite ) is ay ils from any terrestrial 
mineral. It is seen, moreover, to be traversed with little black 
veins, and here and ‘there to include Matte grains of deeply rusted 
nickeliferous iron, some of, which are as large asa pea. Black 
grains and even c rystals of sulphuret | of chromium (schreibersite 
resembling allanite in form and color) are occasionally visible. 
Brown colored pyrites, in very mihute quantity, is diffused through 
the stone ; and especially is it visible in contact with the sulphu- 
ret of chromium. A peculiar blue mineral (iodolite ), and a honey- 
yellow one (apatoid), as be as traces of sulphur, are likewise 
present-in traces in the ston 
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Whenever the stone is broken or rubbed, it emits the odor of 
sulphurons acid. Water dissolves from it decided traces of hypo- 
sulphite of soda, hyposulphite of magnesia, sulphate of magne- 
Sia, chlorid of magnesium, chlorid of sodium, and silicic a 
The proportions in which the different. visible | mi iii 
present may be thus ee. eet 
Chladnite, ‘ ‘ ‘ F 90 per: cent. 
Anorthite,* isch 6 
bt ie species I refer the globular grains of a gra calor. The 
gible and much harder than ie chladn as In a st pts ml heat, before 
it turns white upon the edges, slightly vitrifying, bu pes Not eee? "With fbveehs 
it slowly disappears, without more than tinging the solar of the bead. 
