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Nat. Hist. 
tion: Derbyshire). With these is placed an in¬ 
flammable fossil substance found by Humboldt in 
South America, where it is called dapcche, which 
has several of the properties of the common caout¬ 
chouc or India rubber; also the retinasphaltum 
found at Bovey, and that from Wildshut and Ber¬ 
gen in Bavaria; the peculiar resinous substance 
discovered in digging the tunnel at Highgate, &c. 
— Amber, the yellow and white varieties: fragments 
enclosing insects.— Sulphur ,crystallized and mas¬ 
sive, with selenite, sulphate of strontian, &c.; the 
same found sublimed near the craters of volcanos.— 
Graphite, commonly called black lead, massive,, 
disseminated in porcelain earth, &c. (See British 
Collection: Cumberland.)—A few specimens of 
black coal.—Brown coal, to which belongs the 
well known Bovey coal.-—Uysodile, or papyraceous 
brown coal.—Among the specimens of anthracite 
or kohler.blende (to which may be referred the Kil¬ 
kenny coal) is a specimen from Kongsberg in 
Norway, with native silver. 
(Case 2.) The diamond, though combustible, is 
by common consent considered as the first of pre¬ 
cious stones: among the specimens selected to ex¬ 
emplify its crystalline forms, are, the primitive re¬ 
gular octahedron; the same with solid angles trun¬ 
cated ; with edges truncated, forming the passage 
into the rhomboidal dodecahedron; varieties of the 
latter, giving me. to the six-sided prismatic and 
the 
