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collection: Derbyshire). With these is placed 
an inflammable fossil substance found by Hum¬ 
boldt in South America, where it is called da- 
phche^ which has several of the properties of the 
common caoutchouc or India rubber; also the re- 
tinasphaltum found at Bovey, and that from Wilds- 
hut and Bergen in Bavaria ; the peculiar resinous 
substance discovered in digging the tunnel at High- 
gate, &c.—To the varieties of amber is added some 
wood converted into broum coal, and a small cap¬ 
sular fruit, both of which are found, together with 
that inflammable substance, on the coast of Prussia. 
— Sulphur^ crystallized and massive, with selenite, 
sulphate of strontian, &c.; the same found sublimed 
near the craters of volcanos.—commonly 
called black lead, massive, disseminated in porce¬ 
lain earth, &c.—few specimens of black coal .— 
Broivncoal, to which belongs the well known Bovey 
coal, — Dysodile, or papyraceous brown coal.— 
Among the specimens of anthracite or kohlenblende 
(to which maybe referred the Kilkenny coal) is a spe¬ 
cimen 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 octohedron ; the same with solid angles trun^ 
cated ; with edges truncated, forming the passage 
into 
