26: | Notice of Minerals from Palestine. 
This is evidently a portion of that kind of red granite of 
which Pompey’s pillar and many other ancient monuments 
are formed. It is the feldspar which gives the character to 
this granite—this part of it is flesh red, and predominates in 
quantity, while the quartz is gray and the mica black. 
20. “‘ Fragment from Mount Zion, without the walls of 
Jerusalem.” 
This isa handsome piece of pottery beautifully glazed ; 
colour of the body grayish white—of the glazing mouse colour 
with white veins. 
21. ‘“* Foundation of a monastery in Mount Tabor.” 
Snow white, highly translucent and crystallized primitive 
marble. 
22. ‘Found at Acre.” 
A piece of oriental red porphyry, well polished. 
23. ‘“* White marble from Nazareth.” 
The same as the last but one. 
24. * Prophet Jonas.”’ 
This is a flat calcareous pebble of a very dark gray colour, 
rounded and smoothed by attrition ; it is not mentioned to 
what circumstance in the prophet’s life this has reference. 
25. ‘* Old foundation near Hebron.” 
This is a shell limestone, and exhales an odour like burnt 
oyster-shells whenever it is touched with an acid.” 
26. ‘Two pebbles drawn up from under water in the 
Jordan, April 1824.” 
Gray compact limestone, rounded and smoothed by attri- 
tion. 
27. “From a fine sugar-loaf hill visible from Mount Oli- 
vet, called Frank mountain, a little S. E. of Bethlehem ; 
said to have heen the last fortified hill surrendered by thé 
Crusadets.”’ 
Conchoidal hornstone, verging on chalcedony ; colour 
gray, fires with steel abundantly. 
_ 28. ‘From the sides of the cave said to be that of Saul 
and David, a few miles S. E. of Bethlehem.” 
A gray compact semi-crystalline limestone. 
29. “Formation from the deposit of the waves of the 
Dead Sea; multitudes of sticks, and stones, and other rub- 
bish on the shore are overlayed in this manner.” 
This is a calcareous tufa deposited in layers so very thin 
that twenty are easily coynted in a thickness of three fourths 
