252 Notice of Oriental Minerals. 
From Philadelphia. 
1. “From a wall near Philadelphia, which the people of the 
country say was built of men’s bones. Some travellers are of the 
same opinion. Others think the stones of which it is constructed 
are petrifactions.” Persons belonging to the civilized portion of the 
world will not long, it is to be hoped, remain so ignorant of the mine- 
ral kingdom as to allow them to place confidence on such ill-founded. 
and foolish assertions. ‘The substance in question is, evidently, a 
calcareous concretion, and much of it stalactical. 
2. “From a tomb at Antipas.” A specimen of coarse granular 
limestone. 
From Cyprus. 
1. A singular stone, part of a nodule, apparently rounded by 
water. The mass looks like uncrystallized hornblende, sprinkled 
here and there with small cuboidal crystals, having the lustre of me- 
tallic cobalt. 
From Samos. 
1. A good specimen of translucent arragonite of a whitish yellow 
color, in acicular crystals, radiating from three or four central points. 
2. Greasy .quartz, in which are a few specks of silver-white mica. 
3. A mineral of a light green aspect, and very unctuous. It isa 
variety of talc. its texture is fibrous, but the fibres are extremely 
minute, and crumble to pieces on being rubbed between the fingers. 
4. Granular limestone of a sky-blue color, connected with par- 
tially crystallized calcareous spar. 
5. Lepidolite, embracing thin layers of flesh-colored feldspar and 
a few half-formed crystals of the same substance. The lepidolite 
is pink-red, and composed of small scales. 
6. Chlorite, soft, green, sectile—three specimens. 
7. Fine grained siliceous sandstone, with minute veins of calca- 
reous spar. 
8. Quartz. Yields fire readily ; a part of it white, and a part red. 
9. Brown quartz, very compact and hard, differs little in appear- 
ance from the basanite. 
10. Light-gray mica-slate, containing small spheroidal. particles 
of oolite. 5 
