246 MisctUaneous Localities of Minerals. 



2. Carhonate of lime. A variety of this mineral, compos- 

 ed of lenticular crystals and fibres, running parallel, and some- 

 times diverging, resemblingthe fibrous arragonite, and forming 

 veins in the limestone quarries. — Near Downingstown, Penn. 



3. Phosphate of lime. In compact feldspar in hexaedral 

 prisms from -^-^ to one inch in diameter of a pale green co- 

 lour. — Near Wisahicon, 6 miles from Philadelphia. 



4. Feldspar. A beautiful variety of a green tinge — Oc- 

 curs on Dickson's farm, Wilmington, Del 



5. Jasper, 7-ed and blue, occurs in detached masses, loose 

 and imbedded in the soil, at Chestnut Hill, Del. 



6. Laumoniie in hornblende rock forming thin veins of 

 laminated masses ; it is very friable and by exposure to the air 

 disintegrates and falls into powder. — New Port road, 1^ miles 

 from Wilmington. 



7. Green quartz. This mineral occurs crystallized in cal- 

 carious quartzose rockj and also with it hyalite, in small white 

 specks and in botryoidal and mamillary masses — same lo- 

 cality abounds with fine drusy quartz. — Chesnut Hill, Dela- 

 ware. 



8. Oolite occurs in aggregated globular masses about the 

 size of mustard-seed ; discovered by Dr. Samuel Fowler on 

 his farm, Franklin, New Jersey. 



9. Cyanite in small blades or imperfect flat prisms of a 

 blue and white colour in mica slate. — Germantown, &\ miles 

 from Philadelphia. 



10. Jisbestoid actynolife. This variety occurs in talcose 

 rock in very delicate fibres, diverging or radiating from a 

 centre of a fine silky lustre, its colour usually grayish white 

 or pale green. On the Wisahicon, 6^ and 8 miles from 

 Philadelphia. 



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1. Globules of zoater in amethyst. Among some specimens 

 of this beautiful mineral from Bristol, R. \. there was one 

 detected having a considerable sized globule of water in it. 

 It was presented to the Franklin Society of this place by 

 Mr. Crawford Allen, and is now deposited in their cabinet. 

 It is contained in a cavity situated a little beneath the sur- 

 face of one side of a hexaedral prism, and extending to- 



