metals. 85. Ferriim. 
275 
Found in various parts of England and Scotland, particularly in 
StbeL and other parts of the continent 
maffive, diflbrainatcd, nodular, botry^dal. tabular, c^l^ » 
tubular or llalaftitical ; hard, compaa, fibrous or '■ 3 d'»t«“> 
with the fragments ufually fplintcry or wedge lhaped; the 
fibres are licHate, or fometimes in diftina commns: colon 
SLlg from black to yellow, with the fiirtace often vane- 
gated, \nd f metimes marked with flirubhke ramifications. 
Ipeciiic gravity from 3,423- to 5,005. 
Not magnetic, compad, opake, -with a red or yellow 
ftreak. 
Hematites folidu', WalL fyd. 2 />. 244 - ”■ 
iL'ompaft red iron ftone. Kirnaan miner. 2. p 1 70. 
Compift red iron. itope. Schmeifser min. 2. /’■ 93 ‘ 
CompafV red iron ore, Thom/m cheni. Of p- p- ™,(r,ve 
Found in Lancafiire, Siberia, Saxony, Bohemia, &C. 
diffeminated, or varioufly imitative, fometimes forming beds 
or veins : colour between browmfh-red and fteel-grey : trae- 
taie even or unever, fometimes imperfealy flaty or con- 
cuoidal : it ftains the fi. gers, blackens before the blowpipe, 
and gives a yellowilli green tinge to borax: fpecific gravity 
3.503- 
NO. 
into rhomboidal fragments. 
Ferrum rpatofum. Syft. not. xii. 3. 
Ferrum calc.lapid. inhxr. Wall. jyft. 2. p. 25!. a. . 
Sparry iron ore. Ktr‘wa» miner. 2. p. 190. 
Spatous iron Hone. Schmeijjer mm. 2. p. 99. 
Sp.rry iron ore. Thomfonchem. 4./.. 02. 
Pearl inar. Sonxierby Brit, min tab. 
Snjthofe ii-on ore- Soiveriy Brit. mm. t. 02, 63. 
Found in various parts of Great-Britain and Europe, fometimes 
raiive, or diffeminated, or in fmall c.yftalsr colour when 
frelh white, but gradually larntlliing to red, brown, yellow, 
bluilli or variegated; llreak grey or whitilh : fragments 
rhomboidal,' with often a perlaceous or fatty Nftrf- 
andean eafily be feraped with a knife, foluble with fome eL 
tervclcence m acids, and decrepitates and becomes blackifh 
anTma.netic before the blowpipe: fpectfic gravity from 
3S00 to 3,8.0. contains iron 38, carbonate of lime 38. 
manganele 24. Bergman. 
tllioeum.. Not magnetic, ttriking fire with fieel. 
Sinople. Cnnit,. mineral. 54. i. 05- 
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