EARTHS. CARCAREOUS. 15. StalaiRites. 
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3. With a rich fatiny luftre. 
Satin fpar. Fewerh Brit, mineral, i. />. 1 1. 5. 
Satin fpar, Befyt Philo/, mag. xii,/. 365, 
Found in RuJ/ta, Poland, Germans, Saxony, and Bohemia, with 
the fibres liraight or a little curved ; the fatin fpar is found 
about a mile from Alston in Cumberland, wafhed by the river 
Tynet near the level of its bed ; colour white with fometimes 
a rofy tinge from a diluted mixture of oxyde of iron, and 
tranfmits light from the edges or in thiner pieces ; trafture in 
the direftion of the firix fibrous, ftraightor curved ; fpecifie 
gravity from 7,709. to 2,721. contains carbonic acid 47,600. 
carbonate of lime 50,080.’ water of cryilalhzation 02,308'. 
and fometimes iron 00,01 z. Pefyi. 
Derosas, Willi the fibres fafcicled. 
Gerh. mineral, f. ». 3. 
Found at Schemnit in Hungary, white or yeliowilh, yellow, 
yellow-brown, or flefri-colour, 
stellaris. With the fibres diverging in a ftellate manner, of a com- 
mon figure. 
Inolithus radians. Gerh. mineral, p. 52. ». 2. _ _ 
Found in calcareous mountains in Germany, and in the mines of 
Bohemia and Hungary, white, fometimes yeliowilh or cine- 
reous, 
fi^e/erri, Ramulous, with the fibres diverging in a ftellate manner. 
Stalaftites marmoreus. Syst. nat. xii. 3. p. 183. n. 4. 
Ferrum mineral, ramof. Carth. min. 71. 
Stalagmites coralloides. Wall, fy it. 2. p. 388. ». 9. d. ^ 
Found in the iron mines of Heidenheim in IVirtemhurg, m Styef- 
march, Carinthia and Hungary, fometimes mixed with iron, 
but more frequently upon iron-ftone : generally Inowy, fome- 
times yeliowilh. 
15. STALACTITES. Confifting of carbonate of 
liitie, carbonic acki, and water : formed in the 
air, by the gradual depofition of water: diapha- 
nous, without lulire internally, breaking into in- 
determinate fragments, and feparating into con- 
centric crufts : found chiefly on the roofs and 
fides of arches, and the caverns of calcareous, 
mountains. 
‘Patosus, Pendulous, lamellar internally, diaphanous. 
Lime Stalaftits. Soaverhy Brit. min. p. 13. tah.b., 
buhftvtes mannorea. Syst. nat. xii. 3. p. 184. n. 7. 
