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Mineralog ia* 



Comte . . . Morozzo, 



Sur la variolite du Piemont. 



Memoires de Turin. T. 5. p. 165. 



James Haix, Whiuftone (?). 



Experiments on whiuftone *) (of Scotland) and Lava. 



[*) The term -whinfione, as ufed in moft parts of 

 Scotland, denotes a numerous clafs of fiones, 

 difiinguished in other countries by the names of 

 Bafaltes, Trap, Wacken, Griinftein , Porphyry 

 and Tome other hones of the argillaceous clafs.] 

 Transact, of the Soc. of Edinburgh. Vol. 5. P. 1. p. 43. 

 Robert Kennedy, 



A chemical analyfis of three fpecies of whinfione. 

 Ibid. Vol. 5. P. 1. p. 76. 



Lapides Talc in i. 



n , T - ArendaKtes. 



Rene Jujt Haut, 



Befi hreibung des Arendalit oder Akantikon. 



Neue Schr. der Gef. Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin. B. 3. S. 5Q5. 



Asheftus , Amiantns. 



A curious relation, tali en cut the third Venetian Journal 

 de Letterati of March 15. 1671. of a fubfiance, found 

 in great quantity in fome mines of Italy; out of 

 which is made a hind of incombuftible both shin, 

 paper and candle- week, together with the experi- 

 ments made therewith, 

 philof. Transact. Y. 1671. p.2167. 

 Matildas Tiling, 



De lino vivo aut asbefiino et incombuftibili. 



Mifr ell. Acad. Nat.-Curiof. Dec. 2. A. 2. 1633. p. 109. 

 'Edward Lloyi>, 



An account of a fort of paper made of linum asbefiinum 

 found in Wales. 

 Philof. Transact. Y. 1634. p. 323. , 



Nicholas 



