﻿LIST 
  OF 
  MINERALS 
  

  

  nrRSlSHKD 
  FOR 
  THa 
  

  

  STATE 
  CABINET 
  OF 
  NATURAL 
  HISTORY, 
  

  

  BY 
  FRANKLIN 
  B. 
  HOUGH, 
  M. 
  D., 
  

   OF 
  90MERVILLE, 
  ST. 
  LAWRENCE 
  COUNTY, 
  N. 
  Y 
  

  

  SpECfjLAR 
  IRON 
  ORE, 
  from 
  ED 
  Island 
  in 
  Muscalunge 
  lake, 
  Theresa, 
  

   Jefferson 
  county, 
  where 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  wrought 
  to 
  some 
  

   extent 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  great 
  quantities 
  of 
  iron 
  pyrites 
  with 
  

   which 
  it 
  is 
  associated, 
  will 
  greatly 
  impair 
  if 
  not 
  entirely 
  

   destroy 
  its 
  value. 
  . 
  

  

  SpfXTULAR 
  ORE 
  WITH 
  IRON 
  PYRITES. 
  Locallty 
  of 
  preceding- 
  

  

  Iron 
  pyrites. 
  Do. 
  

  

  SiTLPHATE 
  OF 
  BAliYTES. 
  Bo. 
  

  

  Malachite. 
  Do. 
  

  

  Dysyntribite. 
  ^ 
  Do. 
  

  

  Spongy 
  quartz. 
  Locality 
  of 
  preceding. 
  This 
  is 
  formed 
  by 
  the 
  

   removal 
  by 
  decomposition 
  of 
  sulphuret 
  of 
  iron 
  from 
  the 
  

   quartz 
  rock 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  disseminated. 
  The 
  specimen 
  

   exhibits 
  every 
  stage 
  of 
  the 
  process- 
  

  

  Oaleka. 
  Macomb, 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  county. 
  

  

  I^bradorite, 
  from 
  a 
  large 
  boulder 
  on 
  the 
  sliore 
  of 
  the 
  St. 
  Law- 
  

   rence, 
  near 
  Ogdensbm-gh. 
  

  

  Dysyntribite. 
  A 
  new 
  species 
  rlcscri]»(.<^ 
  in 
  the 
  proceedings 
  of 
  

   the 
  American 
  AssociatidU, 
  Now 
  ilaveii, 
  1850, 
  p. 
  311. 
  

  

  This 
  name 
  (nuggt'Sted 
  by 
  the 
  difliculty 
  with 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  pulver- 
  

   ized 
  in 
  a 
  mortar,) 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Charles 
  U. 
  Shepard, 
  of 
  

   Amherst 
  College, 
  to 
  the 
  variegated 
  serpentine 
  almost 
  invariably 
  

   associated 
  with 
  the 
  red 
  specular 
  iron 
  ore 
  of 
  Northern 
  New- 
  York. 
  

  

  