Notice of Minerals from Palestine. Qe 
A light gray semi-crystalline limestone, feebly translucent 
on the edges—seemsto have beena very ineligible substance 
for a statue—geologically it appears to belong to the transt- 
tion class. 
12. “From the temple of Tartyra, Upper Egypt. Mr. 
Fisk.” 
This is a fine-grained loosely coherent red sand-stone, 
without beauty, in small pieces, but it might still have form- 
ed handsome structures. 
13. ‘Fragment from the temple of Carnac, being the 
common stone of Egypt. From Mr. Fisk.” a 
This is a handsome yellowish gray sandstone, very purely 
siliceous—cuts glass like quartz, and resembles very much 
some of the sandstone of which Edinburgh isbuilt. The last 
two specimens appear to be identical with some pieces in the 
Gibbs cabinet, brought by the French savans of Napoleon’s 
army from Egypt more than twenty-five years ago: 
14. “ Two pieces from the Holy Sepulchre—said to have 
made part of the Holy Sepulchre itself, given me by an Arab 
Christian of Jerusalem. 1824.7? 
One of these pieces is a white, and the other a black 
limestone—the latter appears-to be identical with No. 9. 
15. “ Gethsemane and Holy Sepulchre.’’ 
_ This, being merely a petrified shell, is probably a stranger 
in the place where it was found, and came there by chance. 
16. ‘* Mouth-piece of a pipe from Jerusalem.” 
This is composed of handsome reddish variegated com- 
pact marble in the form of tubes and ovoidal shaped pieces; 
the latter having only the same bore with the tubes; only one 
of the pieces smelled of tobacco; they are rather elegantly 
turned and polished. ‘lwo other pieces, labelled Tyre, ap- 
pear to be exactly similar. 
17. “From the ruins of Tyre.’ 
A piece of well-characterized granite, with reddish feld: 
spar, gray quartz, and almost black mica. 
18. “ Picked upat Tyre.” . ye 
A piece of variegated compact marble as large as the 
hand—cut and moderately polished; its colours are clouds 
and veins of white, gray, brown, reddish, and greenish lines. 
19. “ Red granite from a wall in the city of Tyre, and 
doubtless from the ruins of a splendid temple near by, a part 
of which is still standing—probably originally from Egypt.” 
- Vou. X.—No. 1. 4° 
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