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supplying a new article of traffic only saleable in Groat Britain, it 

 will form a new bond of connexion between our kindred nations." 



6. Dr. Cooke and Dr. Daubeny having called the attention of 

 the Council to the information relating to this mineral contained 

 in Dana's System of Mineralogy," the following abstracts have 

 according! V been made from different parts of that work : — 



(1) Localities and Association of Occim'ence. 



At Blue-hill Bay, Maine — (remarkably good specimens) with arsenical 

 iron, molybdenite^ galena, fluor-spar, black tourmaline, black oxide of 

 manganese, rhodonite, bog manganese, wolfram. 



At Rumford, Maine — in the same district with yellow garnet, idocrase, 

 pyroxene, scapolite, graphite. 



At Jackson, New Hampshire — with drusy quartz, tin ore, arsenical 

 pyrites, native arsenic, fluor-spar, magnetic iron ore, molybdenite, wolfram, 

 copper pyrites, arsenate of iron. 



At Piermont, New Hampshire — with micaceous iron, heavy spar ; 

 ^ green, white, and brown mica. 



At South Westmoreland, New Hampshire — (remarkably good speci- 

 mens) with molybdenite, blue feldspar, bog manganese, quartz, fluor spar, 

 copper pyrites, oxide of molybdenum and of uranium. 



At Bolton, Massachusetts— with scapolite, petalite, sphene, pyroxene, 

 nuttalite, diopside, boltonite, magnesite, rhomb spar, allanite, yttrocerite, 

 cerium ochre, spinel. 



At Boxborough, Mass. — with scapolite, spinel, garnet, augite, actinolite. 



At Chester, Mass. — with hornblende, scapolite, zoisite, spodumene, 

 indicolite, magnetic iron. 



At Chesterfield, Mass. — with blue, red, and green tourmaline : cleave- 

 landite, lithia, mica, smoky quartz, microlite, spodumene, kyanite, rose 

 beryl, garnet, quartz crystals, staurotide, tin ore, columbite, variegated 

 copper ore, zoisite, uranite. 



At Hinsdale, Mass. — with brown iron ore, zoisite. 



At Lancaster, Mass. — with kyanite, chiastolite, staurotide, pinite, 

 andalusite. 



At Littleton, Mass. — vv'ith spinel, scapolite. 



At Middlefield, Mass. — with glassy actinolite, rhomb spar, steatite, 

 serpentine, feldspar, drusy quartz, zoisite, nacrite, chalcedony, talc. 



At Norwich, Mass. — (very fine specimens) with black tournialine, beryl, 

 blende, quartz crystals. 



At Sturbridge, Mass. — with graphite, pyrope, bog ore. 



At Williamsburgh, Mass. — with zoisite, pseudomorphous quartz, sero 

 and smoky quartz, galena, pyrolusite, copper pyrites. 



At Haddam, Connecticut— with chrysoberyl,"^beryl, epidote, tourmaline, 

 feldspar, anthophyllite, garnet, iolite, chlorophyllite, antomolite, magnetic 

 iron, adularia, columbite, mica, white and yellow iron pyrites, molybdenite, 

 allanite, sulphuret of bismuth. 



At Litchfield, Connecticut — with kyanite and corundum, andalusite, 

 ilmenite, copper pyrites. 



At Middletown, Connecticut — with mica, lepidolite. green and red 

 tourmaline, albite, feldspar, columbite, prehnite, garnet, beryl, topaz, 

 uranite. 



At Crown Point, New York — with garnet, massive feldspar, epidote, 

 Epsom salt, magnetic iron. 



At Long Pond, New York — with garnet, pyroxene, idocrase, coccolite, 

 scapolite, magnetic iron ore, blue calc spar. 



