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sembles a Coral, or Madrepore, and shines on the trans- 

 verse fracture ; viz. on the faces of the primitive rhomb 

 which discover it : indeed, we know of nothing in the de- 

 scription that -does not sufficiently accord with ours. The 

 small bent laminae are a consequence of the radiation — see 

 tal. 131. This is an example of one of the dullest speci- 

 mens of Carbonate of Lime of the crystallized and divergent 

 kind, dulled with adventitious matter : thence the variations 

 of the analysis. 



