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of cobalt, but it is wrong ; becaufe neither 
the calx of bifmuth, nor its folutions, be- 
come red, this being a quality belonging 
to the cobalt. 
I have feen a radiated criftallifation of a 
metallic appearance, which was found at 
Schneeberg, and was likewife called Bif- 
muth Flowers but in the fmall trial I was 
permitted to make on it, it did not dif- 
cover the leafb marks of bifmuth, but an- 
fwered rather to zink, if zink may be flip- 
pofed to exid: in a native flate. 
SECT. CCXXIV. 
C. Mineralifed bifmuth, Vifmutum miner ali f alum * 
This is, with refpedt to colour and ap- 
pearance, like the coarfe tefiellated potter’s 
lead ore^ but it confifts of very thin fquare 
plates or flakes, from which it receives a ra- 
diated appearance, when broken crofswife. 
1. With fdlphur, Vifmutum fulphure miner alV 
fatim. 
a. With large plates or flakes, from Baft- 
nas at Riddarfliyttan, Baifinge and Stri- 
pas in Weftmanland. 
h. With fine or fmall fcales, from Jacobs- 
grufvan at Riddarlhyttan, and the mines 
at Los, in the parifii of Farila, in Hel- 
fino-land. 
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SECT. CCXXV. 
2. With fulphu rated iron, Vifmutum ferro fuU 
phuraio miner alt f at um. 
a. Of 
