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tains, in Wilkes county, at Hampton’s,'"' Mining Creek, in Yancey county, 
Buchanan’s* and Cane Creek,* near Bakersville, in Mitchell county. 
Black and greenish Hack hornblende is abundant throughout the State in 
the hornblenke slates, hornblende rock, syenite and diorite. It has been 
found in rather large cleavage pieces, twenty-three miles below Franklin,* 
on the Swannanoa river,"' near Asheville, at the Cullowhee* and Savan- 
nah Mines,* in Jackson county, at Jarrett’s,* on the Nantehalch, at Pole- 
cat creek, and near Greensboro’, in Guilford county. 
62. Beryl. 
In six-sided prisms, sometimes doubly terminated, from about halt an 
inch to four inches in thickness, and from one to six inches in length. 
Their color is yellowish and blueish green, small pieces of the latter color 
are sometimes transparent, and might be cut tor gems (aquamarine;) asso- 
ciated with orthoclase, muscovite, tourmaline, etc. at Bay’s Mine,* on 
Hurricane Mountain, Yancey county ; one imperfert yellowish green 
crystal, of about one and a half inches in length, has been found at 
Buchanan’s* Mica Mine, three and a half, miles east of Bakersville, in 
Mitchell county ; one blueish green crystal, implanted in quartz, has been 
found at Captain Mills’ gold mine,* in Burke county. 
63. Chrysolite. 
This is one of the most interesting minerals of North Carolina, where 
it forms large beds between the hornblende and granitic rocks. It is gen- 
erally of a yellowish green color, but also greenish white, grey and 
brownish green, mostly finely granular, rarely foliated, occasionally in 
larger grains. Associated wish chromite, enstatite, actinolire. tremolite,, 
asbestos, talc, chromite, and rarely with corundum, near Franklin,* Ma- 
con county, Webster,* in Jackson county, Hampton’s,* Mining Creek, in 
Yancey county, two and a half miles south of Bakersville,* in Mitchell 
county, Shooting Creek*, Clay county, South Toe River,* seven miles 
from Burnsville, and at Rich Mountain, Watauga* county. 
64. Garnet. 
Widely distributed through the State, and a constant constituent ot many 
of the mica and hornblenie slates, in which it occurs in minute dodecahe- 
dral and trapezohedral crystals of a brownish or brownish red color ; it 
also occurs in many of the talcose and chlori tic slates ; larger trapezohedral 
