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close to a loose fibrous structure ; various specimens 
of the flexible asbest or amianth, with some antique 
incombustible cloth, paper, &c. made of it; the 
varieties called mountain wood, mountain cork, or 
nectic asbest, &c. separate, and in combination with 
other substances.—As bordering on the varieties 
of actinote in the adjoining opposite glass case, we 
have here the diallage, the green variety of which, 
called also smaragdite, is considered by Werner as 
a granular variety of actinote: in combination with 
saussurite (a variety of compact feldspar) it consti¬ 
tutes the verde di Corsica. Another variety is called 
oinphacite by Werner.—In its vicinity is also placed 
the axe-stone, or Punamu-stone, thus called after 
one of the New Zealand islands, where the natives 
make hatchets, idols, &c. of it: it is generally con¬ 
sidered as a variety of jade. 
{Case 1 7.) This case is occupied by the mica¬ 
ceous and talcose substances.—Among the varieties 
of mica or glimmer, may be specified those that ex¬ 
hibit perfectly transparent crystals ; the beautiful 
red and yellow varieties, together with those of a 
metallic lustre : diverging-radiated mica, &c.— 
Pinite (miearelle of Kirwan.)— Lepidolite; with 
which is placed a specimen of what is considered 
as compact lepidolite.—Intermediate between mica 
and talc, is the chlorite, among the varieties of 
which are the earthy, common, foliated, and the 
slaty : the last of these, with octohedral magnetic 
ironstone, 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
