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have had no time yet to examine the various specimens, in the museum, 
in order to ascertain to which they belong. Large beds of hydrated 
sesquioxide of iron are found at Ore Hill,* in Chatham county, on she 
High Shoals,* in Gaston county, in Lincoln and Catawba counties, and 
near Murphy,* in Cherokee county. Brown hematites accompany in 
small quantities many of the magnetite and hematite beds, and form the 
upper part of many of the gold and copper mines; they are often the 
result of the alteration of siderite and pyrite, and show frequently the 
form of the original mineral, for instance, at Conrad Hill, in Davidson 
county, Cabarrus county, Guilford county, Gaston county, etc. 
52. PsiLOAIELANE. 
It is often an associate of gold and iron ores in coatings of the quartz 
at Scot’s Hill, Burke county, together with pyrolusite at Beck's ore bank, 
on the Lligh Shoals, Gaston county, and in botryoidal masses in a vein, 
said to be four feet, wide, near Lenoir, in Caldwell county,* and in 
Chatham.* In Gaston county, at the Long Creek Mine, on Cross Moun- 
tain, Ormond Ore Bank, etc., a variety occurs, which contains a small 
quantity of cobalt and nickel. 
53. Wad. 
There is often an imperceptible change from pyrolusite into psilome- 
lane and wad, that without analysis it is often difficult to know to which 
a specimen may belong. The earthy varieties are generally called wad. 
A brownish, black earthy ivad occurs near Murphy,* Cherokee county, 
also near Franklin,* in Macon county, and Webster,* in Jackson county. 
54. Senakmontite ok Valentinite. 
The incrustation of the native antimony of Burke county, which does 
not show any crystalline planes, belongs to either one or the other of 
these species. 
55. Bismite. 
An earthy greenish yellow and straw yellow mineral has been observed 
at the King’s Mountain Mine and the Asbury vein, in Gaston count} 7 . It 
is probably Bismite. 
