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room viii. talc which enters into the composition of some 
cosmetics. Indurated tialc ; asbest, mountain flax. 
Nat. Hist. . ’ 
amianth, of which incombustible cloth may be 
made. Chlorite; mica; golden mica used for 
making artificial avanturines ; mica mixed with 
some quartz, with feldspar : granite, &e. Se¬ 
veral varieties of porphyry.—Fossil salts, native 
rock salt, white in cubes, blue and red; iron 
and copper vitriol.—Inflammable fossils : large 
specimen of native sulphur covered with selenite 
crystals, volcanic sulphur, &c. Mineral pitch, 
elastic and slaggy ; asphaltum ; jet; cannel coal, 
&c. 
(Div. 8.) Various pieces of light and dark 
yellow amber, some of them including insects.— 
Metals. Apple-green micaceous uran ore. Tung- 
steen ; wolfram. Compact and radiated grey 
manganese, stalactiticai and botroidal; earthy 
manganese. Native antimony; radiated grey 
antimony ore : iridescent needle antimony : nee¬ 
dle antimony incrusted by stalactiticai caleedony ; 
white and bluish plumose antimony or feather 
ore ; red antimony. Yellow, brown, and black 
blende, variously crystallized, in combination 
with galena, calcareous spar, brown-spar, py¬ 
rites, vitreous silver, &c, on limestone, compact 
brown spar, fluor spar, &c.; calamine : botroidal, 
coating calcareous spar, &c. Cobalt glantz ; red 
earthy cobalt: cobalt bloom, &c. 
(Div. 1.) 
