256 Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals. 



Beautiful ferruginous yellow crystallized quartz, — Blue 

 Edge or South Mountain. 



Lamellar Quartz. — Nine miles from Baltimore. 



Handsome Porphyry. — Nicholson's Gap, Blue Ridge, 

 Pennsylvania, crystals red and distinct. 



Broad foliated Felspar. — F!esh-red, very fine, nine 

 miles from Baltimore. 



Brown hcematite. — Thirteen miles from Baltimore, York 

 Road. 



Quartz. — Elegantly stained blue and green, by carbonat 

 of copper, Blue Ridge. 



Bitterspalh. — Very handsome, forming a vein in the 

 compact limestone, nine miles from Baltimore. 



Apatite. — Red crystals in quartz and felspar. 



Analcime and Mesotype. 



Fine black tourmalin in veins in gneiss. 



Elegant brown tourmalins, twenty miles from Balti- 

 more. 



Mass of Adularia in crystals with clorite. — Found in a 

 brook near Baltimore, the vein not discovered. 



Most beautiful Epidote. — With green and other shades o[ 

 copper scattered in quartz ; the blue is prevalent, abun- 

 dant in the Blue Ridge. 



Quartz and epidote, with green carbonat and red oxid of 

 copper and native copper, Blue Ridge, abundant. 



Other Localities, 



Petrified Wood, almost black, Stafford County, Virginia. 



Arragonite, beautifully crystalizcd, Bermuda. 



Do. in geodes and cavities, forming the cement 

 of a siliceous pudding stone, near Schenectady. — Dr. Mur- 

 dock. 



Iron Sand is found in great quantities on Block-Island, as 

 appears by a M. S. letter of Peter Oliver to Dr. Elliot, 

 Dec. 14, 1761. 



Amber was found near the Delaware, in West-Jersy, in 

 detached pieces, near one pound weight, yellowish, nearly 

 transparent, and titted to make good cane head. Bar- 

 tram's M. S. letter to Dr. Elliot, Dec. 2, 1762. 



