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closely allied to some varieties of common asbest.— 
The tremolite (formerly grammatite of Haliy, but 
now referred by this mineralogist to his ampbibole): 
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 amianthy 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 
of 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 hatohets, idols, &c. of it: it is generally 
considered as a variety of jade. 
(Case 17•) This case is occupied by the mica¬ 
ceous and talcose substances.—Among the varieties 
of 
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