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and extenfively ufed in the porcelain inanufadlure at Wor 

 cefter. It has a milk-white or greenifh-grey colour, mot- 

 tled with a muddy-purple : it is very unttuous to the touch, 

 yields to the nail, and falls to pieces in hot water. Before the 

 blow-pipe, it is friable into a fomewhat tranflucent enamel. 

 According to the analyfis of Klaproth, it contains 



Silex 



Alumina 



Magneila 



Oxyd of iron 



Potafli 



Water 



45.00 

 923 



24-75 

 1. 00 

 0.75 



18.00 



98-73 



Under the article Steatite, it is ftated to differ from com- 

 mon fteatite by the abfence of alumine ; it fhould have been 

 by the excefs of alumine. Some varieties of fteatite fcarcely 

 contain a trace of the latter earth. 



Soda, Amative, or Natron. See Natrox, Addenda. 



SoDALlTE. (See SoDALlTE.) This mineral is clafled by 

 Mr. Jamefon with the felfpar family, on account of its ex- 

 ternal charafters ; it differs from felfpar in the proportions 

 of its conftituent parts, and foda fupplies the place of potafh, 

 which is a conftituent of moft felfpars. 



SoMMlTE, or NepheUne. See Sommite and Nepheline, 

 Addenda. 



Sparry Iron-Jlone. See Iron, and Iron, Addenda. 



Specular Iron-Ore. See Ihox. 



Sphexe. See Sphexe, Rutile, and Titanium. 



Spixel. See Gem, Ruby, and Spinel. 



Spodumexe. (See Spodumexe. ) According to D'An- 

 drada, this mineral before the blow-pipe firil feparates into 

 gold-coloured fcales, and then into a kind of powder or 

 afli. It is recently found to contain 8 per cent, of the new 

 alkali lithia. 



Staurolite, or Grenailte. See Staurolite and Grexa- 

 TITE, Addenda. 



Staurotide, the name given by Haiiyto ftaurolite. 



Steatite. See Steatite and Soap-stone, Addenda. 



Stilbite. See Zeolite. 



Striped Jafper. See Jasper. 



Stroxtiaxite, or Strontian ; Stronttan carhonatee, Fr. 

 See Strontian. 



Sulphate of Cobalt, of Copper, of Iron, of Lead, of 

 Manganefe, of Zinc. See the ores of each of thefe metals, 

 ivhere the native metallic are defcribed. 



Sulphate of Soda, Native. See Soda. 



Sulphur, Common and Volcanic. See SuLPHUR. 



Sulphurets, Native, are combinations of the different 

 metals with fulphur. See Pyrites and the different 

 metals. 



Surturband, or Fibrous Brotun Coal, or Bituminous 

 Wood, Fibreux, Fr. See Coal and Wood-Coal. 



Swine-stoxe, or Fatid Lime-Jlone. See Swixe-STONE. 



Tabular Spar. Spath en Tables, Haiiy. See Tabu- 

 lar Spar. 



Talc. See Talc. 



Tantalite. See Taxtalite. 



Telesia, the name given by Haiiy to the fapphire. 



Tellurium Ores, and Tellurium. See Tellurium. 



Thallite, or Epidote. See Thallite. 



Thummerstoxe, or Axinite. See Thummerstoxe. 



Tile-Ore, Earthy and Indurated, an ore of copper (fee 

 Copper) ; the latter is conlidered by Werner as an intimate 

 combination of red copper-ore ^nd brown iron ochre, con- 



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taining from 10 to ^o per cent, of copper; the red varieties 

 contain the greateft quantity of copper. The dark-brown 

 variety, on account of the refemblance of its frafture to 

 pitch, has been called pitch-ore [Faherz, Werner.) 



Tix-stoxe. See Tix. 



Tin Pyrites, or Bell-Metal Ore. See Tix. 



TiTAxiuM. See Titanium. 



Topaz, Topaze, Fr. See Topaz and Gem. 



Tourmaline, Tourmaline, and Le fchorl eledlrique, Fr. 

 See Tourmaline. 



Tremolite, Grammatite, Haiiy. See Trkmolite. 



Tripoli, or Rotten-Jlone. See Tripoli. 



Tufa. See Tufa. 



Tuxgstex. See Tungsten. 



Variegated Copper-Ore, Cuivre pyriteux hepatique, 

 Haiiy, a native fulphuret of copper, which has a variegated 

 or irridefcent tarnifti. See Coppek-Ores. 



VESuviAX,/r/oc/-rt/f, Haiiy. (See Vesuviax.) The pri- 

 mitive form of the crvftals of Vefuvian is a right prifm with 

 fquare bafes, differing little from the cube. Vefuvian is cut 

 for ornamental purpofes by the lapidaries at Naples, and is 

 called the chrylolite of Vefuvius. 



Umber, Argile ocreufe buin, Fr. See Umber. 



Uran Mica, or Uranite, and Uran Ochre. See Ura- 

 nium, Ores of. 



Wacke, or Wacken. See Wacke. 



Wad. See Wad and Manganese. 



Wavellite, or Hydragillite, Diafpore, Haiiy. See 

 Wavellite. 



Whet-Slate, or Whetflone-Slate, Noverculite, Fr. See 

 Slate and Whet-slate. 



White Antimony-Ore, White Copper-Ore, White Man- 

 ganefe-Ore, White Silver-Ore, and While Vitriol or Sulphate of 

 Zinc. See each of thefe metals, and Ores of 



WniiERirs, or Carbonate of Barytes. See Witherite 

 and Barytes. 



Wolfram, Schelin Ferrugine, Haiiy. ( See Wolfram. ) 

 This mineral occurs moft abundantly in many of the mines 

 of Cornwall, but has not yet been applied to any ufe. 



Yexite, Lievrit, Werner. See Yenite. 



Yttro-tantalite. See Taxtalite and Yttro-tax- 



TALITE. 



Zeolite. See Zeolite. 



Zinc. See Zix'c, Ores of. 



Zircon and Zircoxite. See Zircon. 



Zoisite. See Zoisite. 



MINGRELIA, 1. 12, after gom, add— a kind of pafle 

 made of. At the clofe, add — According to Reineggs, it 

 contains four millions of fouls, and annually exports l2,oco 

 flaves. 



MINKALLI, an African term, denoting a quantity of 

 gold, nearly equal to los. fterling. 



MINOT, in Geography, a town of America, in the dif- 

 ti-itl; of Maine, and county of Cumberland, having 2020 

 inhabitants. 



MIRZIN, r. Wolein. 



MODBURY, 1.33, ;-. 1811 — 1890— 863 males; 1. 34, 

 1027 females, 190 famihes, and 156. 



MOFFAT, col. 2, 1. 13, r. 1811 ; 1. 14. ''• 1824 per- 

 fons, occupying 334 houfes ; 850 being males, and 974 

 females. 



MOGO, 1. 2, after gulf, add— which has one of the 

 moft fecure roadfteads in the gulf, formed by Cape Boftana 

 to the E. and the point improperly called Certes to the W. 

 and capable of holding the largeft fleets. 



MOHOCKS, a denomination given to a mob of dif- 



orderly people, who traverfed the ftreets of London at 



^ uight, 



