TAB. VI. 



CALX stalactites. 



Lime Stalactites. 



Class 2. Earth. Order 1. Homogeneous. 

 Gen. l . Lime. Spec. 2, Carbonate of Lime. 

 Div. 2. Imitative. Haiiy, v. 2. l6s. 



Syn. Stalactite. Kir. v. i. 88. Born, v. i. 298. 

 Chaux carbonatee concretionnce. Haiiy, v. 2. 168. 

 Stalactites spatosum et Stiria. Gmel, 100. 



Stalactites, from their nature extremely various, are 

 chiefly found on the roofs and sides of caverns, sometimes 

 lining them in a very grotesque manner, hanging also very 

 fancifully in the form of icicles, hollow or solid. They vary 

 in colour like other carbonates of lime, and have a like frac- 

 ture and nucleus to the crystallized ones. 



The left hand figure is part of a solid stalactite crystallized, 

 with numerous ends of the rhomb lying together, giving an 

 undulated appearance, and on the whole not unaptly resem- 

 bling an unfolding bud. These are reckoned rare, and are 

 found in a deep mine at Castleton, Derbyshire. 



The upper middle figure is solid, oddly divided, of a whitish 

 and somewhat waxy appearance, altogether of the crystallized 

 fracture, some parts showing the solid angle of the nucleus. 

 These are continually forming at Castleton in Derbyshire. 



