AMBER 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Smooth and shining. 
Fracture conchoidal ; becomes electric by friction, and 
emits an agreeable smell. 
Burns with a greenish or blueish flame. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Succinum electricum. Succinum. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 
3. p. 282. 
Electrurn, diaphanum, solidum. 
Solid diaphanous amber. 
Bitumen solidum durum nitidum. 
Suaveolens. Cartheus. Miner. 48. 
Succinum pellucidum et opacum. 
Waller. Miner. 200. 201. 
Amber Cronst. Miner. 2. p. 460. Kirwan, 
Miner. 2 . p. 65. Patrin, Hist, des 
Miner. 5. p. 346. Brogn. Miner. 2 . 
p. 4 9 . 
The colour of amber varies from a very pale yellow 
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to a deep red : it likewise differs in its degrees of 
transparency, some being found opaque, while other 
specimens are very pellucid. It is generally of a 
compact texture, and hard enough to receive a 
