11)6 Domestic Intelligence. 



Actynolite in talc with brown spar and dolomite. 



Acicular Actynolite, 



Radiated mica of a dark brown color. 



The above are found in the township of Reading, Vermont. 



Granular foliated limestone, 



Compact do. 



Granular foliated dolomite, 



Dolomite, 



White tremolite, 



Green do. 



Adularia and green scaly talc, at Cavendish, Vermont. 



Siliceous oxide of manganese, in all its varieties, 



Octahedral iron, in small but very perfect and brilliant crys- 

 tals, 



Fibrous schorl, at Plainfield, N. H. 



Phosphate of lime, and fibrous, and lamellar zoisite, 



At Windsor, Vermont. 



The above minerals are generally abundant at their several 

 localities, and I have purposely omitted, mentioning many 

 others, from which, as yet, but few specimens have been ob- 

 tained. 



4. Phosphate of Manganese in Connecticut, New Locality 

 of Tabular Spar, tyc. by Charles U. Shepard. — Speci- 

 mens of an ore found in this state, at Washington, were 

 brought here, sometime since, for examination, by Mr. Horace 

 Bushnell, a member of the late senior class. A larger and more 

 recent supply, of the same substance, through the kindness 

 of another student, who lives in that neighborhood, has en- 

 abled me to examine and ascertain its nature. 



It is said to occur in a vein of considerable thickness, tra- 

 versing quartz, which is embraced in granite. It is massive; and 

 traversed with fissures in two directions, perpendicular to each 

 other, to effect the separation of which, the strength of the hands 

 is sufficient, even when exerted upon very considerable masses. 

 So frangible is it rendered by these natural seams, that the slight- 

 est blow of the hammer reduces it at once to fragments, which, 

 for the most part, affect a cubical form, although the third 

 cleavage which produces this shape is not remarkably distinct. 

 Externally, it is brownish black and dull; but, within, and es- 

 pecially in more compact specimens, it presents a clove brown 

 color, and a glistening and resinous lustre. Its powder is 

 a reddish brown. The cross fracture is imperfect flat con- 



