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SALOON, tion : Derbyshire). With these is placed an in- 
NatThist. fossil substance found by Humboldt in 
South America, where it is called dapeche, which 
has several of the properties of the common caout¬ 
chouc or India rubber; also the retinasphaltum 
found at Bovey, and that from Wildshut and Ber¬ 
gen in Bavaria; the peculiar resinous substance 
discovered in digging the tunnel at Highgate, &c. 
—^To the varieties of amher is added some wood 
converted into brown coal, and a small capsular 
fruit, both of which are found, together with that 
inflammable substance, on the coast of Prussia.— 
Sulphm\ 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.—A few specimens of black coaL — 
Bi'own coal, to which belongs the well known Bo¬ 
vey coal. — Dysodile, or papyraceous brown coal. 
—Among the specimens of anthracite or kohlen- 
blende (to which may be referred the Kilkenny coal) 
is a specimen from Kongsberg in Norway, with 
native silver. 
(Case 2.) The diainond, 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 
