FLUOR SPAR. 
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to their different situations, not one is noticed from 
the mines of America, or from other distant coun- 
tries. 
In this country, which, as we have already ob- 
served, produces the finest specimens of fluor spar, 
the inhabitants turn it to good account. They 
form the most beautiful pieces into different orna- 
ments for our chimneys, such as vases or pyra- 
mids ; sometimes into fruit, egg-cups, &c. The 
greatest manufactory for these things is carried on 
in Derbyshire. They turn this brittle substance on 
a very solid lathe worked by water ; and afterwards 
polish it in the same manner as marble. Patrin la- 
ments that this branch of industry is not introduced 
into France, where they have plenty of the spar 
which might be rendered equally profitable. 
