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TAB. CCCXII. 



STRONTIA sulphata. 

 Brush-like Sulphate of Strontian* 



Drush Iron Ore is spoken of in many authors, but I do 

 not know of any mention having been made of Sulphate of 

 Strontian in that form. The specimen here figured, how- 

 ever, is so perfectly described by that appellation, that very 

 few will not assent to it. It came from the same place 

 as the last, and is formed altogether of smaller spiculae. 

 The bundled and, sometimes, twisted elongated arrange- 

 ment admits of not only a picturesque effect, but exhibits 

 the pleasing graceful line of beauty so universally attractive 

 in Nature, that, ever since our Hogarth observed it, we may 

 be said to have been indulged with a new sense for abstract 

 beauty. 



