OF THE FAROE ISLANDS. 24^ 



len is by no means remarkable for its elevation ; the Myling, 

 in Stromoe, is at least a third higher, presenting an unbroken 

 mural front, with scarcely a point for a bird to perch upon 

 from the summit to the base. 



On the west side of the promontory, opposite Thiornivig, 

 and also on the east side, upon the shore, we observed nume- 

 rous indications of fusion upon different surfaces of the rocks ; 

 and it was from this vicinity that we procured the principal 

 part of the specimens, bearing testimony of this fact, that we 

 brought home with us. It was among some large fragments, 

 also on the east side, that we discovered specimens of apo- 

 phyllite altogether rare for the magnitude and beauty of cry- 

 stallization. 



They here occur in rectangular prisms, often in perfect cubes, 

 sometimes longer, sometimes shorter ; occasionally, the cubes 

 are truncated upon the solid angles, either slightly, or so 

 deeply as to meet, forming the regular cubo-octohedron. 

 The crystals, like those formerly mentioned, which we found 

 in Nalsoe, are streaked on the sides longitudinally, and have 

 a pearly aspect on the terminations ; they are disposed on a 

 ground of mamillated mesotype, and in some instances 

 grouped like fluor-spar ; the cubes being irregularly implanted 

 on each other. They are perfectly transparent and colourless, 

 except when affected by the weather, which renders them dull 

 and opake. The largest I met with measures seven-tenths of 

 an inch, by five-tenths. I was assured by M. Varina, a Spa- 

 nish mineralogist, and a distinguished pupil of Werner, that 

 it is to this variety he gives the name of Cubizite, although it 

 is under that appellation the Analcime and Chabasie of Hauy 

 are described by Brochant and others. It may be, therefore, 

 that the Cubizite of Werner, is in fact the Apophyllite of 



H h 2 Hauy, 



