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SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
from being as it were an inversion of the primitive; 
the same with a considerable admixture of quartz, 
commonly called crystallized sandstone of Fon¬ 
tainebleau. Prismatic and pyramidal modifica¬ 
tions of the same, among the former of which are 
the beautiful varieties from the Hartz, Salzburg, 
&c.^ 
(Case 21.) The same continued:—This case 
contains specimens of the larnellated varieties of 
carbonate of lime called slate-spar and aphrite : 
tabular spar with garnets and cinnamon stone; 
granular and compact limestone (marbles) ; mas¬ 
sive magnesian limestone, called dolomite, and 
(contiguous to it, in the opposite case) the crystal¬ 
lized magnesian limestone, called hitterspar, in 
chlorite slate, &c.— Fibj^ous limestone, the finest 
variety of which is that from Cumbeiiand, and An- 
drarum in Sweden, with pearly lustre, which has ob¬ 
tained the name of satin spar. 
(Case 22.) Various specimens of stalactical 
limestone, some varieties of which bear the name 
of alabaster in common with compact gypsum; 
the peculiar variety pea stone, from the hot 
springs of Carlsbad in Bohemia, and the , white va¬ 
riety found in the bed of a small river near Tivoli, 
and known by the name of confetti di Tivoli .— 
* For a greater variety of the modifications of crystallized carbo¬ 
nate of lime see the British Collection, especially Derbyshire and 
Cumberland. 
Calca- 
