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Journal. "Coccolite green and red," the catalogue informs 

 us, is found in Charlotte, Vermont, and Professor Cleaveiand 

 is quoted for authority. If any one will take the trouble to turn 

 to the article, in Cleaveland's valuable system of mineralogy, 

 he will find, that reference is made to me. Indeed, the error 

 must be charged to my account. It occurred in this manner. A 

 Mr. Muzzy, who was attempting to manufacture atMiddlebury, Vt. 

 the Monkton porcelain earth, into China ware, gave me, in 1810, 

 a mineral, which, he stated, came from Charlotte. 1 sent a part 

 of it to Prof. Cleaveiand, to be named. He called it Coccolite. 

 I also published a brief notice of it in the Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Repertory, from which Prof. Cleaveland's description is 

 taken. Soon after this, Mr. Muzzy died. I made many enqui- 

 ries after the locality of this substance, but gained no informa- 

 tion on the subject. I have since been a number of times in 

 Charlotte, and endeavored myself to lind it, but always Jailed of 

 success ; and I now state, that I have no knowledge of the exist- 

 ence of Coccolite^ in that township. 



Dr. Comstock asserts in his Mineralogy, that Coccolite " is 

 found in abundance, and of various colors," in Charlotte, and 

 gives my name as authority. Such a broad assertion I have no- 

 where made, nor could 1 with truth on my side. I had received 

 no information respecting the quantity found. 



Bat it may be asked, " whence came the specimen, affirmed 

 to have been brought from Charlotte ?" It came, without doubt, 

 from that place, but that was not, I think, the place of its origin. 

 It was brought, originally, I am fully convinced, from the New 

 York side of Lake Champlain, from the township of Willsbo- 

 rough, which is nearly opposite to Charlotte. " But that immense 

 vein is not Coccolite ;" nor was the specimen in question. It 

 was colophonite. I have myself taken hundreds of specimens 

 from the vein, precisely like the one transmitted to Prof. C. 



This is the simple history of the error. I hope it will now be 

 obliterated from the works in which it is published, and no more 

 be copied. 



Coccolite — red, brown and black — is very abundant, near Ro- 

 gers' Rock, two or three miles south from the upper Falls in Ti- 

 conderoga, N. Y. This is the only locality, with which 1 am 

 personally acquainted, where the mineral is found to be abun- 

 dant. " Aluminous slate," Rockingham, Vt. " in argillaceous 

 slate, which is quarried at horse-heaven." There has never 

 been any argillaceous slate quarried, at the place called horse- 

 heaven. A very limited quantity has been quarried, for grave 

 stones, and perhaps, for other uses, half a mile or more, below 

 horse-heaven. 



" Hornstone" Cornwall Con. " on the late Judge Matthews' 



