Miscellantous Localities of Minerals, 45 



3. By Geo. W. Carpentek. 



1. Manganesian Garnet — this mineral is of a brownish 

 Ted colour, of a compact texture and occurs massive, im- 

 bedded in the soil between Oermantown turnpike, and 

 Roxboroogh township line road, six and a half miles from 

 Philadelphia, abundant. 



2. Actynolite, in compressed acicular crystals, traversing 

 a granular mass, occurring on the township line road six 

 miles from Philadelphia. 



3. Schorl, of a beautiful velvet black, in cjlitidrical crys- 

 tals more or less aggregated, occurring in granite rock on 

 the old York road, five miles from Philadelphia, abundant, 

 in this same rock occurs the zuhite Beryl described in Vol. 

 8 of this Journal, page 236. 



4. Limpid Quartz, crystallized in six sided prisms, ter- 

 minated by six sided pyramids, v;ith some modifications, 

 occurring loose in a ploughed field between Gerraantown 

 arid the old York road, five miles from Philadelphia. 



5. Aciynohte^ of the glassy variety, in talcose rock, of a 

 fine green colour, in irregularly grouped acicular crystals, 

 eleven miles from Philadelphia on the Wisahicon creek. 



6. Chromate of Iron at the same locality (abundant.) 



7. Pseudomorphnus Quartz — these imperfect or false 

 crystals ore generally opaOjUe, surface dull and of a variety 

 of forms ; it is sometimes also in small globular or reniforra 

 masses radiated from the centre and in botryoidal clusters, 

 occurring in an old quarry between Germantown and York 

 road, five miles from Philadelphia (abundant.) 



8. Crystals of Mica^ imbedded in granite, in rhomboidal 

 and six sided tables and prisms, on the township line road 

 six miles from Philadelphia. 



9. Staurotide, in mica-slate, Wisahicon creek, six miles 

 from Philadelphia. 



10. Zircon, in reddish brown, four sided prisms from i 

 to I inch in length at Schooley's mountains about 100 

 yards from Belmont Hall, in sienitic rock detached. 



1 1. Phosphate of Lime, in long slender six sided prisms 

 of a pale green colour in granite rock at Germantown six 

 and a half miles from Philadelphia. 



Philadelphia, M, 294 Market-street , Oct. 14, 1824. "" 



