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long most of the varieties of wliat is called lenticular 
and coxcomb pyrites, as also the globular pyrites 
of a radiated texture.—The hepatic or liver pyrites 
of Werner, very distinct from what French minera¬ 
logists call fer sulfure hepatique, which latter is de¬ 
composed common and radiated iron pyrites and 
sometimes brown iron stone.— Magnetic pyrites^ 
vvhich is nearly allied to the preceding species; mas¬ 
sive and crystallized in six-sided prisms.—Oxides of 
iron: magnetic iron stone, massive, of various grain^ 
compact, crystallized, in serpentine, chlorite slate, 
&c.; ore which yields the wootz, a very hard kind of 
iron from the East Indies; magnetic iron sand, 
(CV<r6‘d? 38.) Oxides of iron continued.—Speci¬ 
mens of specular iron, or iron glance, among which 
those from the island of Elba are remarkable on 
account of their beautiful iridescence and play of 
colours ; variety in large laminar crystals, appear¬ 
ing like polished steel, from Stromboli, &c. ; the 
micaceous iron ore of Werner, belonging partly to 
this species, partly to the scaly red and brown iron¬ 
stone ; among the most remarkable specimens of 
which is that in delicate, tr?\nsparent tables of a 
blood red colour, from Nassau-Siegen ; that in 
scales coating the cells of lava ; a shining brownish 
black variety used as hair-powder by the Bootchuana 
natives beyond the Great River, South Africa, &c. 
—The different varieties of compact red iron-stone., 
and of red hematite, ' 
SALOON. 
Nat. Kisx. 
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