2. Ternary Oxygen Compound*. 
1. Silicate*. A. Anhydrous ‘Silicates. 
59. Enstatitk. 
In coarsely granular masses with chrysolite, at Webster, Jackson county, 
also in small crystalline particles, disseminated through chrysolite, at 
Hampton’s, Mining Creek, Yancey county, and two and a half miles south 
of Bakersville, in Mitchell county. 
GO. i*YKOXENE. 
Black and brownish black, cleave’able masses, with magnetite, at Cran- 
berry,'" Mitchell county ; green coccolite, in calcite, two or three miles 
from the mouth or Bear creek*, and in marble, at Walnut creek,* one 
mile from French Broad river, Madison county. 
61. Amphibole. 
Amphibole is represented in Xortli Carolina by numerous varieties. 
We find white and gray tremolite , associated with talc, at Marble creek* 
and Murphy,* Cherokee county, also on the Tennessee creek,* Jackson 
county, in talc and chrysolite, at "Webster,* Jackson county, the White- 
side Mountains,* Sugartown,* eight and a halt miles from Franklin, Ma- 
con county, two and a halt miles south ot Bakersville,* in Mitchell 
county, and at Hampton’s, Mining Creek*, Yancey county on Toe river,* 
gap ot Black Mountain, and the southeast slope of the Three-top Moun- 
tain,* in Ashe county ; grey and brownish grammatite occurs near the 
Tennessee creek* ; actinolite has been observed at Shooting creek,* Clay 
county, Swannanoa river,* near Asheville, and with chrysolite at Web- 
ster.* Jackson county, Hampton’s, Mining Creek,* in Yancey county, two 
and a half miles south of Bakersville,* Mitchell county, in talcose rocks, 
near Tennessee creek,* on the east fork of Tuckasege, one and a halt 
miles from its mouth, Rich Mountain,* Watauga, Franklin,* in Macon 
county, at Bolejack’s Limestone Quarry,* in Stokes county, at Rogers’ 
Ore Bank,* near Danbury, in Stokes county, and Ellison’s in Gaston 
county. Asbestos has been found at Webster,* on Sugartown creek,* near 
Franklin, at the Isantehaleh river,* in Macon county, the Brushy Moun 
