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cubic calcareous spar credited to this region. Six-sided prisms of calcareous spar are also 
said to have been found at the foot of Goat island.* 
Oneida County. On the western bank of Dry Sugar river, near Boonville, there occur 
crystals of calcareous spar, having the forms represented in Figs. 62 and 63. The rock in 
which they are found is very hard, and divisible into layers of from two to twelve inches in 
width ; it requires much labour and care to extract the specimens without injury. These crys¬ 
tals are contained in veins which are filled with wet argillaceous earth. They are sometimes 
an inch in length.! 
Onondaga County. On the track of the Auburn and Syracuse railroad, near the village 
of Camillus, the hog-tootli variety is found in considerable abundance. It is usually of a yel¬ 
lowish colour, and the crystals are seldom more than half an inch in length. It is associated 
with fibrous carbonate of lime, or what has been called arragonite. 
Orange County. There are several localities of calcareous spar in this county, but they 
seldom afford well defined crystalline forms. A white variety, from which fine rhombohedrons 
may be obtained by cleavage, is found at the O’Neil mine, in the town of Monroe. About a 
mile southwest of Amity, it is white and nearly transparent; and in the vicinity of the same 
place, specimens are found which are singularly variegated. At several localities it is of a 
beautiful fiesh-red colour, as at Amity, at Two ponds in Monroe, at the Queensborough mine, 
and in various parts of the town of Cornwall. This variety, which I have not met with out 
of this county, usually has associated with it small crystals or grains of scapolite and cocco- 
lite. It is richly worth a place in every cabinet. 
Veins of white calcareous spar occur in the slate at Newburgh, and to this may be added 
two other localities, viz. the one, two miles east of the Greenwood furnace; and the other, 
four miles southeast of Woodbury furnace. 
Putnam County. At the Denny mine in Phillipstown, small crystals having the primary 
form are found on the magnetic iron ore. Masses 
are also found, exhibting the rhombic cleavage, at 
Hustis’ farm in the same town, and at Coldspring. 
But the most interesting locality in this county is 
that which was made known to me by Mr. Cyrus 
P. Fountain. It is near the village of Patterson, 
where loose crystals are found adhering to the fibres 
of asbestus which is common in the dolomitic lime¬ 
stone. These crystals are white or yellowish, and 
have both terminations perfect, although they are 
usually small, seldom exceeding half an inch in 
length. The most common forms are the scalene 
dodecahedron, modified as in Fig. 78; and a twin 
crystal, Fig. 79. 
Fig. 78. Fig. 79. 
* Cleaveland's Mineralogy. 
f Prof. O. P. Hubbard. American Journal of Science, XXXII. 230. 
