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saloon, with golden tarnish, from Moutier, near the 
Nat. hist. Montblanc; the acicular crystals of rutile in 
rock crystal, &c.; the ferriferous oxides, some 
varieties of which may be considered as titanife- 
rous oxides of iron, and to which may be referred 
the black sand called manachanite, and the iserine, 
in loose grains and imbedded —specimens of ana- 
tase, or octohedrite, from Dauphine ; —the scarce 
substance called craitonite (crichtonite) by the 
Comte de Bournon, likewise from Dauphin^, in 
very acute octohedral crystals, and in thin la¬ 
minae. 
The remainder of this glass case contains the 
ores of antimony :—native antimony, from Alle- 
mont in Dauphine, some varieties of which are 
arseniferous ;—grey antimony, or sulphuret of 
antimony, the most common ore of this metal, 
occurs compact, foliated, radiated, and plumose: 
the more remarkable among them are the spe¬ 
cimens pf crystallized radiated antimony in fine 
groups, especially from Transylvania; radiat¬ 
ed grey antimony with barytes, realgar, &c.; the 
plumose grey antimony, some varieties of which, 
appearing like delicate wool or down, display a 
fine iridescent blue, yellow, and red tarnish ; — 
red antiniony, mostly in fine capillary crystals, 
from Braunsdorf, in Saxony ;—white antimony, 
crystallized, on galena, &c,t— specimens of an¬ 
ti monial 
