254 Miscellaneous LocalUies ofMimrah. 



3. Miscellaneous. 



The minerals in the immediate neiglibourhood of Prince- 

 ton, are few, and possess but very little interest. Cubical 

 crystals of iron Pyrites are to be found along the margin ot 

 Stony Brook, imbedded in shale. Crystallized quartz, is not 

 uncommon. The crystals are generally imperfect, and not 

 very transparent. 



A bed of Argillite, very proper for building stone, cross- 

 es the road at the north end of the town — it makes a con- 

 siderable dip. In this bed, I have been informed that 

 wavellite occurs, but I have in vain searched for it. 



Specimei>s of receni/y petrified wood are sometimes met 

 with lying on the surface. In my cabinet there is a piece, 

 which appears once to have been the lower end of a ches- 

 nut post, used for fencing — the exterior of it is black, as 

 though it had been carbonized or charred. I have also 

 seen a mineralized chip, with the marks of an axe very 

 apparent upon it — the petrifying matter is silex. 



Avery excellent bed of siliceous sand, used for mortar, 

 is near the road side, south east of the village. There are 

 other beds of sand in the vicinity. Silex in large pebbles is 

 not uncommon. Yellow earth is found on the side of a hill 

 in our neighbourhood — it is used for painting carriages — 

 and is by artists considered as a very good substitute for the 

 tena de Sienna — with Prussian blue it forms a very delicate 

 olive yellow colour. 



Art. VIII. — Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. — Editor. 



Sulphat of Barytes. — Mores Mills, Berlin, Kensington 

 parish, foliated, pure white, translucent, brittle, — -jet and 

 galena imbedded. 



Fluor Spar of New-Stralford. — The American Chloro- 

 phane, containing imbedded a well defined brilliant crys- 

 tal of beryl, half an inch in diameter and protruding one 

 inch and a half from the fluor. 



Porous decomposed trap filled with numerous white 

 crystals too minute to be distinctly observed, but probably 

 stilbite. Talcot Mountain, ten miles west of Hartford. 



