GOLD. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Colour yellow. 
Soluble only in aqua regia. 
Melts at 32 degrees of Wedgwood’s pyrometer; but re 
mains unaltered in the strongest tire. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Aukum nativum. A. nudum ponderosissimum ductile, visibile 
matrici adhaerens. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 
3. p. 378. 
A naked, heavy, ductile metal, visibly ad- 
hering to a matrix. 
Aurum nativum genuini coloris. Cartheus. 
Miner. 77* 
Aurum nativum radicatum. Waller. Miner. 
321. 
Native Gold. . Cronst. Miner. 2. p. 520. Kirwan, Miner. 
2. p. 93. Patrin, Hist, des Miner. 5. 
p. 158. Brogn. Miner. 2. p. 264. 
This precious metal appears under various forms, 
and in different situations in the earth. It is occa- 
sionally found in solid masses, as in Hungary, Perm 
and Transylvania : in a granular form, as in the 
