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and the hypers the 7ie or paulite ( Labrador hornblende 
of Werner), may likewise be referred to this tribe of 
minerals. 
Case 35. Among its contents may be specified the 
mineral substances which have been described under 
the appellations of thallite, arendalite, acanticone, del- 
phinite, &c., which are Werner’s pistacite and are now 
more generally designated by the name of epidote, 
given to them by Haiiy. To this also belongs the man- 
ganesiferous epidote , referred by some to the ores of 
manganese. — Cummingtonite. — Zoisite. —Among the 
specimens of idocrase (vesuvian of Werner), the more 
conspicuous are the large beautiful crystals (the unibi- 
naire of Haiiy), discovered by Laxmann on the banks 
of the Vilui in Kamschatka, embedded in a steatitic 
rock ; those from Vesuvius, where this substance occurs 
accompanied by other volcanic ejections, have, in Italy, 
obtained the name of Vesuvian gems, hyacinths, and 
chrysolites;—the varieties called egerane , loboite, and 
that from Tellemarken in Norway, coloured blue by 
oxide of copper, and known by the name of cyprine ;— 
essonite (hessonite) or cinnamon-stone , chiefly from 
Ceylon, which was supposed to contain zirconia, till a 
more accurate analysis proved it to be nearly allied to 
vesuvian : most of the hyacinths of commerce are cin¬ 
namon-stone. 
Case 36. The greater part of this Case is appropri¬ 
ated to the various species and varieties of the garnet 
tribe, formerly divided into noble and common garnets. 
Among the more distinct chemical species now establish¬ 
ed arethe pyrope or chrome garnet, generally called 
Bohemian garnet, which occurs in rounded grains, and 
also imbedded in serpentine, &c.;—the coiophonite , so 
called from its resemblance to resin, from Norway and 
North America;—the melanite , found particularly in 
the neighbourhood of Frascati; — the grossular or 
Wilui garnet, a fine light-green species from Kamschat¬ 
ka, so called from the fancied resemblance which its 
separate crystals bear to a gooseberry;—the alio - 
chroite , 
