66 
crystallinui. 
Ami ant as. 
maturus. 
fragilis. 
garis. 
EARTHS. TALCOSE. 3. Albeftus. 
Found \xi Norway, Corftca, and Tyrol, clothing the cryftals of 
magnetic ir n Hone, and leaves a mountain- green trace: 
contains oxvdc of iron 43, 3. filica 41, ij. alumina 6, 13. 
magnefia 39, 47. lime i, 50. air and water 1,50. 
Green, refcmbling acieular cryftals. 
Found in Saxony and Saveslen,- on the furfaccof rock cryftal. 
3. ASBKSTUS. Confi/ling of carbonate of mag- 
nefia, filica, and generally alumina; with fre- 
quently oxyde of iron, rarely carbonate of lime: 
dry to the touch, fibrous, foft, light and float- 
ing, brittle in the fire, parafitic. 
A. all the Jihrss parallel. 
Floating, with very fine fcparable, highly flexible fibres. 
Amiantus fibrous. Sy/?. nat. xii. 3. /. 55. «. i , 
Amiant. Kirnssan mineral. 1. p. 161. 
Mountain flax. SchmeiJJer snineral. l. p. 203. 
Flexible Afheftus. Thomlons chemiRry, 3. p. 594. 
Found with Serpentine in the Ural, Lapland, S<wedifi,o,Ti^ many 
European mountains, and likewile in Candia and China : 
colcuf filvery-white, greyilh, greenilh-whitc, yellowifh, pale 
flefii-colonr or ochre jcllow ; feels a little grcaly to the touch, 
and ealily melts in a candle : contains filica 64, o. carbonate 
of magnefia 17, 2. carbonate of lime 12, 8. oxyde of iron 
6, o, JBergman. 
Harder, with the fibres more clofely cohering, tenacious 
and feparabic. 
Amiantus plumofus. SyR. uat. x.\\. 3.^. 55. w. 2. 
Found in S-vseden, and leparates more into a kind of down than 
into diftinft fibres: abounds with iron, which gives it a 
greenilh colour: in the fire it melts into ablaekdrofs. Pro- 
bably only a variety of the lall. 
Shining like glafs, with feparable ver^ fragile fibres. 
Amiantus fibrous. SyR. nat. ten. 3-/>. 55. « 3. 
Found in Siberia and Snxeden, and is fold in the Ihops under ths 
name of feathered Alum : colour grey or greenilh. Taken 
internally it is highly deleterious, but has been fometimcs 
applied to flimulate paralytic limbs. 
Without luftre, with rigid ftony cohering fibres in long 
bundles. 
Amiantus iinmaturus. Syfl. nat. xii. 3. p. 55. ». 4, 
Albeltus. Kirnaan mineral, l. /i. 159. 
Common Aftelt. SehmeiJjer mineral, i./, 204. 
