Notice of Minerals frow Patestine. 27 
of an inch; as the mass is concave and convex, it looks at 
first like an oyster shell. 
30. ‘* Kedron and Cedron.” 
The fragments that are thus labelled are calcareous stones, 
hoth primitive and secondary, not beating any strong marks 
of erie. 
- ‘Two pebbles from the brook Cedron. 1824.” 
Gis of these is very interesting : it is a fragment probably 
once detached from a rock of mica slate, the mica being al- 
most black, but the most interesting feature of the stone is, 
that it is composed principally of beryl, there being several 
distinct and beautiful crystals of a deep sea-green, besides a 
mass of less distinct configuration ; it must evidently be a 
stranger in the bed where it was found. 
32. * From the temple of Carnac.” 
Trap; the hornblende has an almost vitreous appearance. 
33. ‘Carmel.’ 
Flint well characterized, looking almost exactly like the 
English flint, being like that in the form a of grotesque no- 
dule, and its dark colour penetrated to the depth of a line or 
more by a shade of gray; derived, evidently, from the cal- 
careous mass in which it had been imbedded, and which ap- 
peared, from the adhering pieces, to be rather compact lime 
stone than chalk. The adhering matter effervesced with 
acids, and gave out the smell of burnt oyster-shells. 1 
34 “Jerusalem Much of the marble seen in Jerusalem 
is of this colour and quality.” 
This is a compact limestone, clouded with flesh Jet and 
ra 
35. “ Broken by a Mussulman boy from the mosque of 
Omar i in Jerusalem; supposed to occupy the site of Solo- 
mon’s temple.” 
There are three pieces which are the same as 34. 
36. ‘‘Common stone of the mountains of Gornoo, where 
are the tombs of the kings in Egypt.” 
Three pieces of compact limestone. dull, and very hitle “We 
fering from the compact marl of Beyroot, (44.) in which the 
fish are contained. There is alsoa large and very perfect, 
petrified shell fish from the same place ; it is a bivalve. 
37. “ Jordan.” 
Two waterworn calcareous pebbles. 
238. “ Tyre.” 
