CONTENTS 
REPORT ON THE MINERALOGICAL AND CHEMICAL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE SURVEY. 
(The numbers refer to the corresponding numbers in the body of the report, and not to the 
pages.) 
Prehminary remarks, 1 
Tabular view of the minerals of the Slate 
of New-York, 2 
Hydrogen and carburetted hydrogen gases, 3 
Sulphuretted hydrogen gas, 4 
Oxygen gas,....i. , 5 
Nitrogen gas, 6 
Carbonic acid gas, 7 
Graphite or Plumbago, 8 
Bitumen, 9 
Sulphur, 10 
Amber, 11 
Anthracite and coal, 12 
Lignite, 13 
Peat, 14 
Sulphuric acid, 15 
Sulphate of soda, 16 
Carbonate of soda, 17 
Common salt, 18 
Sulphate of potash, &,c 19 
Sulphate of baryta, 20 
Carbonate of lime, 21 
Marble, meaning of the term, 22 
Marbles of Sing-Sing and Kingsbridge, ... 23 
Mineralogical and chemical characters of 
the Sing-Sing marble, 24 
Marbles of Dutchess county, 25 
Marbles of Putnam, Columbia, Ulster, Al- 
bany and Schoharie, 26 
Marbles of Western New- York, 4 . 27 
Analysis of the grey limestone from Chitte- 
nango and from the split rock quarry, ... 28 
Marbles of Wayne and Niasrara, ^ 
Marbles of Northern New- York, 30 
Manufacture of lime, its importance to the 
State, 31 
Hydraulic or Water limestones, how cha- 
racterized, 32 
Opinions concerning the ingredient to which 
the hydraulic property is to be ascribed, 33 
Observations on the selection and manage- 
ment of water limes, 34 
Principle involved in the hardening of wa- 
ter limes, 35 
Hydraulic limestones of Ulster county, ... 36 
Analysis of the hydraulic limestone and ce- 
ment from Ulster, 37 
Inference from the experiments on the ce- 
ment, 38 
Composition of the blue limestone accom- 
panying the water lime, 39 
Water limestones of Albany, Herkimer and 
Oneida counties, 40 
Water limestone of Madison, 41 
Chemical composition of the water lime- 
stone from Madison and of the cement 
obtained from it, 42 
Analysis of the blue limestone accompany- 
ing the above, 43 
Analysis of the calciferous slate from Chit- 
tenango and Rochester, 44 
Manlius water limestone, , ... 45 
Analysis of the above limestone, 46 
Water limestones of the counties west of 
Onondaga, 47 
Water Ifmestone of St. Lawrence,....,., 48 
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