54 Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals, 



* 8. By Jacob Porter. 



1 Blue Quartz, of a good colour, in amorphous masses, 

 Plainfield. 



2. Radiated Quartz, in considerable quantity, Shelburne. 



3. Quartz, a singular variety, Williamsburg. " This 

 mineral," says a writer in the Hampshire Gazette for July 

 14th, 1824, "'has the form of the hogtooth spar, incrusted 

 with very minute crystals of quartz, but on breaking it is 

 found to be hollow with larger crystals at its base, or in 

 some few instances it is entirely filled up with semi-crystal- 

 lized quartz." 



4. Prismatic Mica, beautiful. Bellows Falls. 



5. Scapolite,f very abundant by the road side, about a 

 mile east of Hall's tavern, Charlemont. 



6. Epidote, Rowe and Windsor. Wells — also at Plain- 

 field, both crystallized and granular ; and at Williamsburg 

 in quartz, remarkably beautiful. 



7. Cmmningtoniie, of Dewey, Plainfield, in considera- 

 ble quantities. It is perfectly well characterized, many oi 

 the specimens being elegant and even superb. This inter- 

 esting mineral has also been discovered at Salisbury, Con- 

 necticut, by Charles A. Lee. It is well characterized, al- 

 though less beautiful than that, which is found at Cumming- 

 ton and Plainfield. 



8. Ligniform Asbestos, in serpentine, Zoar. H. M. Wells. 



9. Fasciculite, of Hitchcock, Charlemont. H. M. Wells. 



10. Actynolite, in large and beautiful crystals, associated 

 with talc, at Rowe. H. M. Wells. 



11. Steatite, Rowe, H. M. Wells. 



12. Magnetic Oxide of Iron, in beautiful octaedral crys- 

 tals, in chlorite at Rowe, also at Zoar. H. M. Wells. Also 

 in octaedral crystals in chlorite with actynohte, at Windsor, 

 also in similar crystals at Hawley. 



13. Carbonate of Iron, Plainfield. It is beautifully crys- 

 tallized in rhombs, which are nearly white, have a shining 

 surface, and are frequently curved or undulated. 



* Communicated for the Berkshire Lyceum. 



t For my knowledge of this and several of the following localities I am 

 ittdebted to Doctor Hezekiuh M- Wells of Windsor. 



