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Art. V Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals^ cammunica- 

 ted by various persons. 



1. By Professor. J. F. Dana, of Hanover, N. H. 



1 Hornblende. Superb specimens of crystallized horn- 

 blende, imbedded in lameflar hornblende, or confusedly ag- 

 gregated — bladed and promiscuous, in quartz; Iron mines, 

 Franconia, N. H. 



2. Garnet. Amorphous and imperfectly crystallized — the 

 faces of the crystals remarkably smooth and perfect; Fran- 

 conia mine. 



3. Epidote. Crystallized; same place. 



4. Green quartz. Containing hornblende — colored by ep- 

 idote. These are beautiful specimens. Franconia. 



5. Asbestus. This mineral has a peculiar appearance. It 

 occurs in masses or rather sheets of one or two inches thick, 

 and of various extent. The fibres are intimately united, and 

 are curved in every direction. Franconia. 



6. Staurotide. Franconia. Sulphuret of Copper. Franco- 

 nia. 



7. Cyanite. Of a light bluish grey. Hartford, Vt. 



8. Sulphuret of Iron. Deeply truncated on the angles of 

 the cube, forming a solid of fourteen sides. Hartford, Vt. 



9. Galena. In a vein of quartz traversing mica slate. 

 Lebanon, N. H. 



10. Granular Argillaceous Oxide of Iron. Sharon, Vt. 



11. Carbonate of Iron. In rolled masses of quartz, on the 

 banks of the Connecticut. Hanover, N. H. 



12. Plumbago or Graphite. Large specimens — equal to the 

 Borrowdale. Bristol, N. H. This has just been discover- 

 ed — it is abundant; five hundred pounds were sent to Bos- 

 ton as a sample, as the owner informs me. 



At the Franconia iron mine, near the furnace, I noticed a 

 peculiar slag, which resembles perfectly some varieties of 

 pumice-stone. 



2. By Mr. Steuben Taylor, Preceptor of the Charles- 

 field Street Academy, at Providence. 



1. Quartz Crystals are found pure and well defined, from 

 one to two inches in length and from one third to three 



