Miner a log t\ 105 



It is found in the duchy of Zweybruck 



orDeuxponts, in Germany. 



b. Indurated, Miner a Mercurii indurata*. 



Solid cinnabar. Is of a deep red colour, 



and, with refpect to ks texture, is either* 



1. Steel-grained, from Siebenburgen-, 



2. Radiated; 



3. Compofed of fmall cubes, or fcah% 

 from Idria and Hungary ; or 



4. Criilallifed, 



a. In a cubical form ; it is tranf- 

 parent, and deep red as a ruby, from. 

 Mufchlanfberg in Zweybruck *. 



SECT. CCXIX. 



i. Mineralifed with fulphur and copper, Mef* 

 cur 1 us cupso futpburato miner alifatus. This 

 is blackilh grey, of a glafly texture, and 

 brittle •, crackles and fplits excefiively in 

 the fire \ and when the quickfilver and ful- 

 phur are evaporated, the copper is difcover-* 

 ed by its common opaque red colour in 

 the glafs of borax, which, when farther 

 forced in the fire, or diluted, becomes 

 grcm and tranfparent. It is found at 

 Muichlansberg in Zweybruck. 



SECT. CCXX. 



Observations on Qjj ickshver. 



The divifibility of quickfilver in the cold, might 

 occafion feme doubt, whether it really deferves to 

 be called a metal, if it had not a right to it from 



* It is (kid, that there is alfo found in Ioria a black cinna- 

 bar, that retains it* colour in the fuMimation, which feems 

 to indicate an abundant phlogifion in the jfajpbltn bu: this re- 

 ./ever, 2 farther examination. 



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