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when the analyses are recast according to the methods now much 

 in vogue and extremely useful.^ 



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S'0= 59.55 54-62 54.47 53.43 51.62 



Al=03 :. 25.62 26.5 26.45 ^8or 24.45 



F^-^Os .75 .75 1.3 .75 1.65 



FeO 56 .67 5.3 



^JgO tr. .74 .69 .63 1. 21 



CaO 7.73 9.88 10.8 11.24 9-97 



^^-^ 5-09 4-5 4-37 4-85 3-49 



K2O .96 1.23 .92 .96 1.27 



H2O .45 .91 .53 tr. .72 



P=03 01 



MnO - .1 



100.15 99-69 100.20 99.87 99-79 



Sp.gr 2 . 66 2.7 2 . 72 2 . 67 2 . 798 



1 Chateau Richer, Quebec. T. S. Hunt. Geol. Sur. Can. 1863. 



2 Keene valley. A. R. Leeds. X. Y. State Mus. 30th An. Rep't. 1878. 

 p. 92. 



3 Summit of Mt Marcy. A. R. Leeds. X. Y. State Mus. 30th An. Rep"t. 

 1878. p. 92. 



4 Xain. Labrador. A. Wichmann. Zeitsciir. d.d. Geol. Gesellsch. i88j. 

 36 :49i. 



5 Carnes Quarry, Altona, Clinton co. E. \\". Morley for H. P. Gushing. 

 X'. Y. State Geol. 19th An. Rep't. 1901. p. 58. 



^ The recasting of analyses was hrst practised by \V. C. Brogger oi 

 Christiania about 1890, and has given a new significance to the chemistry 

 and mineralogy of rocks. A simple exposition of the methods employed 

 will be found in Kemp's Handbook of Rocks, the calculations being 

 pursued onl}- so far as thej- give results representing actual rock-making 

 minerals. A more elaborate method has been developed by Messrs 

 Cross, Iddings, Pirsson and Washington in The Quantitative Classifica- 

 tion of the Igneous Rocks, but in its application the authors are forced 

 because of the complicated mineralogy of many rocks to assume some 

 minerals or molecules which, so far as we know, are not in the rocks 

 under discussion. While the variation from the actual mineralogical 

 composition is oftentimes not necessarily great, yet hypothetical con- 

 ditions are unavoidably assumed. In the recasting here cmpioyed, only 

 those mineralogical molecules are used which we have reason to believe 

 are in the rock. W^hile the results are not mathematically accurate and 

 while in some cases an excess or a deficit of a component has been 

 encountered, yet the results must be very near the truth. They have 

 their value in that they focus attention upon the percentages of the 

 several minerals rather than, as in chemical anabases, upon uncombined 

 oxids. 



