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Nat. Hist. 
riously crystallized, from Dauphin6, &c.—^The 
pyroxene tribe, comprising the augite, in separate 
crystals and imbedded in Vesuvian lava, together 
with groups of well defined crystals from Arendahl 
in Norway, where this substance occurs in primi¬ 
tive rocks, and the granular augite or coccolite; the 
varieties of diopside (now pyroxene) called alalite 
and i)iussite\ the sallte or malacolite, a species 
perfectly distinct from the common augite or 
pyroxene.—With these is placed the ilvaite, a mi¬ 
neral substance from the island of Elba, which 
is known also by the absurd names of jenite and 
yenite.—The remaining substances in this case re¬ 
late to the hornblende or amphibolic minerals, which 
are continued in the two next cases: basaltic horn¬ 
blende from Vesuvius, common hornblende, &c. 
{Case 15 and part of ]Q.) Continuation of am¬ 
phibolic minerals: only a few specimens of that 
widely dift’used substance, the common hornblende, 
could be deposited in this part of the collection.— 
Between this and the substance now best known by 
the name of diallage (in the adjoining and opposite 
case. No. 16), are placed the hypersthhie of Haiiy 
{Labrador hornblende of Werner) and the anthor 
phyllite, a substance from Kongsberg in Norway, 
nearly allied to them.—The actinote or strahlstein, 
of which we have the common, glassy, and fibrous 
varieties, likewise passes into substances contained 
in the opposite glass case, especially the amianthoide 
from Oisans and the fibrous actinote, which is 
closely 
