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closely allied to some varieties of common asbest.— 
Th^ tremolite (formerly grammatite of Haliy, but 
now referred by this mineralogist to his amphibole): 
among the specimens of this substance are, the 
fine fibrous variety, not unlike in appearance to 
some varieties of asbest in the opposite glass case ; 
glassy tremolite in dolomite and granular limestone 
(see the adjoining table-case. No. 21). 
{Case 16.) Asbest and amianth, with other re¬ 
lated substances : among these may be observed 
specimens illustrative of the transition from a very 
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 
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 ,—In its vicinity is also 
placed the axe-stone^ or Punamu-stone, thus called 
after one of the New Zealand islands, where the na¬ 
tives make hatchets, idols, &c. of it: it is generally 
considered as a variety of jade. 
{Case \7,) This case is occupied by the micace¬ 
ous and talcose substances.—Among the varieties 
of 
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