Intelligence and Miscellanies. 185 



1 4. Novaculite in Georgia. — Extract of a letter to the Ed' 



itor, from Mr. J. C. Keeney, dated, " Sparta Female 



Academy,'" Jan. 16th, 1829. 



" I take the liberty of addressing you relative to a mineral 

 which I have been examining, and pronounced novaculite, 

 beheving it identical, if not with the Turkey oil stone, with 

 that found in N. Carolina, and described, I think, in the thir- 

 teenth volume of the American Journal of Science and Arts. 



" Since I came to this conclusion, I polished a specimen 

 of it, and prepared it by boiling in oil, after the manner of 

 the Turkey oil stones, and put it into the hands of a carpen- 

 ter, who, after trial, pronounced it ' a Turkey oil stone of a 

 superior quality.' 



" This mineral is found in Lincoln and Oglethorpe coun- 

 ties, Georgia. I have recently visited the locality in Lin- 

 coln. It is situated on a low hill, about two miles from Lin- 

 colnton court-house. It is seen projecting above the surface 

 of the earth, through four or five acres of ground, and is 

 therefore probably quite extensive. It is found very much 

 inclined, or nearly in a vertical position. There are several 

 varieties of color in the same locality. That which is found 

 exposed to the atmosphere, is mostly of a yellowish straw 

 color ; but that which is taken from beneath the surface of 

 the earth, is mostly of a greenish white, a fair specimen of 

 which I now send you." 



Prof D. Olmsted, to whom we have exhibited the above 

 named specimen, and who, from his familiarity with the ex- 

 tensive beds of novaculite in North Carolina, is well qualified 

 to judge, agrees in opinion with Mr. Keeney ; and if it were 

 of any importance, we could add our own assent. — Ed. 



15. Notice of the locality of the Bronzite, Jameson^ or 

 Diallage metalloide, Hauy and Brongniart ; at Amity, Or- 

 ange county. State of New York ; by J. Finch, Hon. Mem, 

 West Point Lye. Nat. Hist. <^c. 



On an excursion, in the autumn of 1828, over the cal- 

 careous formation of Orange county, and the Northern part 

 of the state *>f New Jersey, accompanied by Wm. Horton, Jr. 

 M. D, of Goshen, N. Y. and Lieut. Mather of the U. States' 

 Army, we discovered the above mentioned mineral, which 

 had not, I believe, been previously noticed in the U. States. 



The Bronzite occurs in foliated masses, composed of lam- 

 inae, which vary in size, from minute scales, scarcely two lines 



Vol. XVI.— No. 1. 24 



