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thanne in the territory of Anfpach wc find a dark, 

 ochre brown ftone, concreted of land, or a fand- 

 flcnc and pyrites particles of the fize of hemp feed, 

 feme fmaller, feme bigger, of eight fides. 



8. Of pyrites in Hme-itonewe have mconteftablc 

 evidence from the famous llme-ilone quarry of 

 Querfurt, from the Schlofsberg of Toplitz, and 

 in particular from the Beyerberg in the territory 

 of Anfpach, immediately beneath the under-turf 

 earth. 



9. In loams and clay pits pyrites is often met 

 with ♦, the'Heflian iron earth ftiews this : and the 

 Pretzfchendorff pyrites lies towards the day-fquats 

 in a fatty, talcky vein^ftone. 



jo. We find pyrites in a kind of marly Hone, 

 a fatty, clear lore of Hone-earth, commencing a 

 ftone, yet not ceafing to be an earth 5 as may 

 be feen at Toplitz, and from a large quarry at 

 Cottitz in Bohemia. Pyrites lodges alfo in gemfs, 

 a loft, fiakey ftone, lying between the inner, hard 

 rock and the outer garden mould. 



11. Pyrites we find in that rocky vein-flone 

 ft riking out to the day. called by miners knauer y 

 and to be denominated a wild, barren, dead hone, 

 from its not yielding any hnetah 



12. Pyrites uluaiiy manifefts itfeif in and near 

 all the wrecks or remains of the Deluge, but 

 oftener in the fragments of minerals than ve- 

 getables ; and in what are railed the mufte.1, peri- 

 winkle and horn Works ; as the country about 

 the Wirtemberg Bath at Boll plainly fhews in a 

 vail variety of fampies. . And Dr. Balthafar 

 Erhard of Memmingen has furnifhed me with 

 Samples of cornua afnmonis^ peffiinites\ cochlites^ con- 

 cbiteSy belemnites, lapides judaic^ bjc. either filled 

 or over-laid with pyrites. And indeed it is found 

 not only in and upon petrified pieces, but on 

 fuch as have remained unchanged, only become 



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