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ROOM VIII. 
Nat. Hist. 
Sz c.; cross-stones (Harmotome Hauy). A large 
oval piece of azure stone (lapis lazuli). 
( Div . 7 .) Soapstone or steatite ; a species of 
jade of which the Chinese carve figures and small 
vessels ; nephritic stone, called axe-stone, from 
New Zealand, where the natives make hatchets, 
&c. of it. Precious and common serpentine, dial¬ 
lage, smaragdite, &c. Common or Venetian talc 
which enters into the composition of some cos¬ 
metics. Indurated talc; mountain flax, amianth, 
of which incombustible cloth may be made. 
Chlorite; mica; golden mica, used for making 
artificial aventurines; mica mixed with some 
quartz, with feldspar: granite, &c. Several vari¬ 
eties of porphyry.—Fossil salts : native rock salt, 
white in cubes, blue and red; iron and copper 
vitriol.—Inflammable fossils : a large specimen of 
native sulphur covered with selenite crystals ; vol¬ 
canic sulphurs, &c. Mineral pitch, elastic and 
slaggy ; asphaltum ; jet ; cannel coal, &c. 
(Div. 8.) Various pieces of light and dark 
yellow amber, some of them containing insects.— 
Metals. Apple-green micaceous uran ore ; Tung- 
steen ; wolfram. Compact and radiated grey man¬ 
ganese, stalactitical and botroidal ; earthy man¬ 
ganese. Native antimony; radiated grey antimony 
ore; iridescent needle antimony; needle antimony 
included 
