102 Phosphate of Lime in the Virginia Meteoric Stone. 
For lykewise as God is in the myds of the good counsayle, 
so in the myddest of an evyl counsayl, is ther undoutedly the 
dyvel.—Sir T. Moore. 
When Calidora ‘ 
Him overtook in mzddest of his race.—Spenser : Faerie Queene. 
Among the maddest crowd.—WSpenser. 
And the vaile of the temple was rent in the mids.— Original 
- Edition of King James’s Bible: Luke 23: 45. 
Which is in the mddest of the paradise of God.—Original 
Edition of King James’s Bible: Rev. 2: 7. 
In myddis of the land.— Wyntown. 
Midst is rarely used as a nominative, or as an accusative with- 
out a preposition. 
Midst here is the genitive case of mid, the middle. Comp. 
Anglo-Sax. to-middes, where middes is the genitive of Anglo- 
Sax. midd, the middle; Germ. mttelst, by means of, for mites, 
the genitive of Germ. mttel, the middle or means. 
Note.—Dr. Webster supposes st in midst to be the sign of the superlative degree. 
So Sir John Stoddart, art. Grammar, in Encyc. Metrop. p. 129. 
9. Whilst, awhilst ; (Old Eng. whiles, whilest ; Scott. quhiles, 
whiles ;) while. 
Wat sholde we women, worche the whiles.— Piers Plouhman. 
Whuilest good men wanted it.—Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Whiles he tasted the wine.—Some Editions of King James’s 
Bible: Daniel 5: 2. 
Quhiles wandering, quhiles dandring.—Burel’s Pilg. 
Whulst here is the genitive case of while, time. 
Note.—On the st generally, comp. Germ. nebst, (from neben, nebens ;) anders 
and anderst ; selbst, (Old Germ. selbs, Dutch zelfs.) 
Arr. XIII.—On Phosphate of Lime (Apatite), in the Virginia 
Meteoric Stone; by CHartes UrHam Sueparp, M. D., Prof. of 
Chemistry in the Medical College of the State of S. Carolina. 
M. Rumuer, in a recent number of Poccenporrr,* in enume- 
rating certain ingredients in meteorites, after the mention of phos- 
* Ueber die bei Jwan, in Oedenburger Comitate Ungarns,.am 10. August 
Abends zwischen 9 und 10 Uhr aus der Luft gefallenen und fiir Meteorsteine ganz 
neuer Art. ausgegebenen Korner: von Karl Rumler, Kustos-Adjuncten am k. k. 
Hof-Mineralien-Kabinette zu Wien, s. 279. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 
von Poggendorff, Band tiv, Stuck 2, 1841. 
