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KOOM VIII. 
Nat. Hist* 
talc, which enters into the composition of some 
cosmetics. Indurated talc : asbest, mountain flax, 
amianth, of which incombustible cloth may be 
made. Chlorite ; mica ; golden mica used for 
making artificial avanturines ; mica mixed with 
some quartz, with feldspar: granite, &c. Se¬ 
veral varieties of porphyry. —Fossil salts, native 
rock salt, white in cubes, blue and red ; iron 
and copper vitriol.—Inflammable fossils : large 
specimen of native sulphur covered w’ith selenite 
crystals, volcanic sulphur, &c. Mineral pitch, 
elastic and slaggy ; asphaltum ; jet; cancel coal, 
&c. 
(Div. 8.) Various pieces of light and dark; 
yellow amber, some of them including insects.—* 
Metals. Apple-green micaceous uran ore. Tung- 
steen; wolfram. Compact and radiated grey 
manganese, slalactical and botroidal ; earthy 
manganese. Native antimony; radiated grey 
antimony ore ; irridescent needle antimony; nee¬ 
dle antimony incrusted by stalactical calcedony ; 
>vhite and bluish plumose antimony or feather 
ore; red antimony. Yellow, brown, and black 
blende, variously crystallized, in combination 
with galena, calcareous spar, brown-spar, py¬ 
rites, vitreous silver, &e. on limestone, compact 
brown spar, fiuor spar, &c.; calamine: botroidai, 
coating calcareous spar, &c. Cobalt glantz; red 
earthy cobalt; cobalt bloom, &c. 
(Div. 1.) 
