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At Goetineau River, Canada West — with calcite, tourmaline, horn- 

 blende, pyroxene. 



At Grand Calumet Island, Canada West — with phlogopite, pyroxene, 

 sphene, idocrase, serpentine, tremolite, scapolite, brown and black tour- 

 maline, pyrites. 



The apatite^ or mineral phosphate of lime, usually occurs in 

 crystalline rocks. It is often found in veins in gneiss or mica- 

 slate, and particularly those containing tin and iron ore ; also in 

 granular limestone. It is sometimes met with in serpentine, and 

 occasionally, as in Spain, in ancient volcanic rocks. Among 

 foreign localities are Ehrenfriedersdorf, in Saxony ; Schlacken- 

 wald, in Bohemia; Caldbeck Fell, in Cumberland ; Devonshire; 

 St. Gothard, in Switzerland. The greenish-blue variety called 

 moroxite occurs at Arendal, in Norway, and Pargas, Finland, 

 The asparagus- stone, or spargelstein variety, which is obtained at 

 Zillerthal, in the Tyrol, and Villa Rica, Spain, is translucent, 

 and has a wine-yellow colour; it is embedded in talc. The 

 phosphorite, or massive radiated varieties, are mostly obtained from 

 Estremadura, in Spain, and Schlackenwald, in Bohemia. The 

 eupyrchroite variety of Emmons is similar. Magnificent crystals 

 of apatite, or mineral phosphate of lime, are found in St. Law- 

 rence county. State of New York, in white limestone, along with 

 scapolite, sphene, &c. One crystal from Robinson's Farm, in 

 Hammond, was nearly a foot in length, and weighed 18 lbs. 

 Smaller crystals are abundant, and the prisms are frequently 

 well terminated. Besides the locality in Hammond, fine crystals 

 are obtained about a mile south-east of Gouverneur in a similar 

 gangue, and also in Rossie, with sphene and pyroxene, two miles 



north of the villaofe of Oxbow. Also on the bank of Vrooman 

 ... 



lake, Jefferson county, in white limestone, fine green prisms 

 from half an inch to five inches long ; San ford Mine, East 

 Moriah, Essex county, in magnetic iron ore, which is often 

 thickly studded with six-sided prisms ; also at Long Pond, 

 Essex county; near Edenville, Orange county, in prisms from 

 half an inch to twelve inches long, of a bright asparagus-green 

 colour, imbedded in white limestone ; and in the same region, 

 blue, greyish-green, and greyish-white crystals ; two miles south 

 of Amity, emerald and bluish-green crystals ; at Long Pond, 

 Essex county, with garnet and idocrase ; at Greenfield, Saratoga 

 county, St. Anthony's Nose, and Corlaer's Hook, less interest- 

 ing ; fibrous mammillated {eupyrchroite^ at Crown Point, Essex 

 county, about a mile south of HammondsviUe. In New Hamp- 

 shire, crystals, often large, are abundant in the south part of 

 Westmoreland, four miles south of the north village meeting- 

 house, occupying a vein of feldspar and quartz in mica- slate, along 

 with molybdenite ; some fine crystals at Piermont, New Hamp- 



