metals. 85. Ferrum.' 
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Magnetic iron Lncl. Schmeifer miner. 2. p. 90. 
Magnetic fand, Thcmfonchem. 4. p- S'i- 
Found in Italy at the bafe of volcanic mountains, in 
and on the Ihorcs of Creat-Bntain, Siberia, Greenland, JSo- 
hemia, Jamaica and India, and fcems to be the fragments of 
other ores wafhed down and comminuted by torrents and the 
waves of the fea : the grains are obtufangled, deep glutertng, 
very hard and magnetic, of a conchoidal traffure, not altered 
by the blowpipe, melting into a black glafs vvith potafs and 
into a green glafs with microcofmic fait: fpecific gravity 
4,600. they probably contain fome filica. 
hepaikum. Attraftod by the magnet, liver-brown with a black ftreak, 
paucum. /ttt fleel, reducible to fomewhat cubical 
fragments. 
Found in the alps of Lapland, compaa. 
’’hens. Attraaed by the magnet, compaa, black with a red 
llreak, reducible to cubic fhining fragments. 
Crontl. mm. feS. 2' 3 * , . 
Found in the mines of Arendal m Nornxay. 
rhomlicum. Attraaed by the magnet, compad, with a red ftreak, re- 
ducible to rhombic fragments. 
Ferrum deculTatum. Syli. nat. xii. 3. p. I 39 ‘> ”- * 4 - 
Found in the mines of Bitjburgen in Snveden. 
tuccinum. Attraaed by the magnet, compaa, black with a red 
ftreak, breaking into indeterminate fragments. 
Cronft. mineral feB. 211. 2- l- 
Found in the mines of Sn.veden. 
tamlksum. Attraapd by the magnet, black with a red ftreak, la- 
mellar. „ „ c 
Ferrum fquamofum. S^tl. noU xii. 3. p. 1 39- ». 10. 
Miners lamellofa. Crond.min. 211-2.4. 
Lamellaied iron ote. Schmtipr miner. 2. p. 89. 
Found in Norway, Rujfia, Siberia, India and Mexico, iron- 
black, folid, fliining, with a lamellar texture: contains a 
large proportion of iron. 
Magmu Magnetic, compaa. of a common form. 
Ferrum attraeforium. .Syfl. xii- 3. /. 1 42. ». 27. 
Fertum polos nftend. IVall. fyft- z- P 233. n. 3. 
IVlafcnetic iron Hone. Kvwan min. 2. p. 
Magnet or loadftone. Schme’Jer miner. z.p.%S.. 
Magnetic iron-ftone. Tbomfon chem. 4. p. 53. 
