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pipe, it emits sulphurous fumes; and flows without ebullition into 
a black glass, which is magnetic. With borax, it melts into a 
deeply yellow colored globule while hot, which on cooling be- 
comes paler, and often shows a tinge of green. With tin, it 
forms a glass colored by chrome. The iron present, appears to be 
accidental, arising from the adhesion of magnetic iron pyrites; 
and the mineral will probably be found on complete analysis to 
be a sesqui-sulphuret of chromium. Found in small grains (the 
largest about the size of a rice-grain) in the Bishopville stone. 
36. Sulphur.—This mineral occurs in small, semi-transparent 
grains and in powder, diffused through the Bishopville stone. 
_ 37. Plumbago.—F ound in thin coatings between the layers 
of meteoric iron, and in little almond-shaped balls, dispersed 
through the same, in the Cocke Co., Tenn. iron. 
As the whole number of well estab lidhed mineral species be- 
longing to mineralogy does not exceed three hundred and sev- 
enty, it will appear from the foregoing, that the meteoric species 
already recognized, equal one tenth those of our earth. The 
following table will show how far the meteoric species are com- 
= to - earth, and how far they are peculiar to the meteors. 
common to the earth. |Meteoric species peculiar to. meteor-masses- 
L Sulyhurote acid. 1. Vitriclice nickel. 
2. Epsom salt. 2. Hyposulphite of soda, 
3. Glauber’s salt. 3. Hyposulphite of magnesia, 
4. Copperas. 4. Chloride of iron... 
5. Chloride of magnesium. 5. Chloride of nickel. 
_ 6. Chloride of sodium. 6. Chloride of cobalt. 
_ 7. Chloride of calcium. 7. Apatoid. 
8. Soluble silica. _ 8. Sphenomite. 
9. Apatite ? 9. Dyslytite. 
10. Mica. 10. Iodolite. 
11, Anorthite. 11. Chladnite. 
12. Pyroxene _ 12. Chantonnite. 
13. Peridot. 13. Native iron. 
Ac 14. Nickeliferous iron. 
15. Limonite 15. Native steel. ‘ 
16. Chrome-ore. 16. Nickeliferous steel. 
17. Magnetic iron. 17.> Schreibersite. 
20. Plumbago. 
