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chap, malleable, a substance described by Le Sage; 
, X / beautiful specimen of native gold from P eru 3 
muriate of silver ; crystals of tin oxide, as big 
as walnuts ; a singular crystallization of car- 
bonated lime, having assumed the shape of a 
heart, and therefore called heart spar ; very large 
octahedral crystals, exhibiting the primary form 
of fluat of lime; the Siberian emerald, tra- 
versing prisms of rock crystal ; Peruvian emerald 
in its matrix; Chrysoprase ; Pallas's native iron; 
beautiful crystals of chromate and of phosphate 
of lead ; native antimony ; a specimen of rock 
crystal, so filled with water, that, when turned 
in the hand, drops were seen moving in all 
directions; — the stone called Venus hairs, or 
titanium oxide in rock crystal ; — and that beau- 
tiful mineral the red antimonial, or ruby silver, in 
fine distinct prisms, lying upon calcareous spar. 
The Museum of this nobleman contained other 
objects of curiosity besides cabinets of Natural 
History. It was rich in valuable pictures; in 
many of the most interesting relics of anti- 
quity, particularly Grecian vases; and it con- 
tained a library of books of the highest value. 
Count Golovkin was one of the very few, among 
the Russian connoisseurs, who really possessed 
taste. There was proof of this in every selection 
he made; whether of books, antiquities, pictures, 
