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Near to the vein of Beryls, and a few feet from a spot whence the 

 granite has formerly been quarried, we obtained distinct crystals of 

 brown Mica, from half an inch to two inches in diameter : their form 

 is that of the oblique rhombic prism, sometimes truncated upon the 

 acute lateral edges. 



On our road to Paris, which is thirty five miles distant from Frye- 

 burg, we noticed very frequently by the road side, large irregular 

 masses and bowlders of Trap, but they were in no instance, embra- 

 ced in the granite. In the town of Waterford, however, I once saw 

 this rock penetrating the granite, in numerous veins, from a few inch- 

 es to upwards of a foot in width ; their direcdon was generally vertical, 

 although sometimes smaller seams appear to have diverged from 

 the main mass of the vein, and to have followed the horizontal strat- 

 ification of the granite. 



9. Paris Minerals. 



I arrive now at the description of a locality of minerals yielding in 

 interest to none in North America, if we take into view the variety and 

 richness of the specimens it has afforded in times past, or those which 

 it still produces in the greatest abundance. Nearly every variety of 

 the Tourmaline species has been here obtained, in crystals, which for 

 size, transparency and richness of color, are unrivalled: crystalli- 

 zations also, of brown and white Quartz, threaded by crystals of Tour- 

 maline ; large foliae of Mica penetrated by acicular green Tour- 

 maline ; Lepidolite of every shade of color ; chatoyant Felspar, 

 and the most exquisitely delicate fragments of Rose quartz. 



For our first information concerning this deposit of minerals, we 

 are indebted to Mr. Elijah L. Hamlin, formerly of Paris, and to Dr. 

 Holmes, at present a teacher in the Gardiner Lyceum. A memoir 

 relating to it, by these gentlemen, is contained in Vol. X. (p. .14.) of 

 this Journal. An additional noUce of the spot is likewise to be found 

 in the appendix of Dr. Robinson's Catalogue of American Minerals, 

 (p. 278.) It will be my object, at present, to give a more particular 

 account of the most interesting minerals to be found here, avoiding, 

 as far as possible, a repetition of the observations contained in the 

 above mentioned notices. In the first place, I shall confine ray re- 

 marks to the present condition of the locality, and I will afterwards, 

 add a description of some uncommonly interesting things which I ob- 

 tained there during a visit in 1825, and of which, nothing similar ap- 

 pears to have been since obtained. 



