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to the 29th degree below o on Fahrenheit's ther- 

 mometer, when it becomes malleable; it is 14 

 times heavier than water, eafily divifible, and eva- 

 porates in a heat below ignition ; rapidly foluble 

 in the nitrous acid. Mercury is found in Hun- 

 gary, Tranfylvania, Carinthia, Bohemia, France, 

 Spain, Sweden* Peru, and probably in the Eaft 

 Indies and Japan. 



a. Native Quicksilver ; fluid, or interfperfed ; 

 fometimes called virgin mercury. 



b. Amalgamized Mercury ; alloyed with filver ; 

 found on Mofchellandfberg and Stahlberg in 

 Deuxponts, near Sahl berg in Sweden, near Zlana 

 in Hungary, chiefly on a grey indurated clay. 



c. Cinnabar; combined with fulphur, in vari- 

 ous forms, fcaly, granular, indeterminate. 



d» Hepatic Ore; Mercury combined with ful- 

 phuret of potafh or foda. 



e. Cupreous Mercury ; Quickfilver combined 

 with Copper, chiefly on lapis ollaris and quartz. 

 Found in the mines near Mofchellandfberg. 



D. SILVER. 



SILVER, when pure, is 11 times heavier than 

 Water ; the whiteft of all metals ; harder, but lefs 

 malleable than gold ; foluble in the nitrous and 

 vitriolic acids. Silver is found in all countries, 

 but moft plentifully in Peru and Potofi. 



T 2 a. Native. 



