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SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
stone, galena, &c.; mellite or honey stone^ which 
is said to be geognostically related to amber, but is 
a mellate of alumine.— Glauberite, imbedded in 
white and blue rock salt, &c. 
{Case 28.) contains various saline minerals, 
among the more remarkable of which are the fibrous 
sulphate of magnesia and soda, from Calatyud in 
Arragon, and the blue salt with glauberite from 
Aranjuez,^in Spain. 
In the glazed table-cases and drawers on the right 
hand side of the principal entry from the first room 
into the Saloon, are deposited the Metallic ores. 
[Case 29.) The ores of platina, gold, and mer¬ 
cury.— Platina in grains fro_m Peru and Brazil: 
the latter mixed with grains of greyish yellow gold. 
Palladium, — Iridium.—Native gold, subdivided 
into pure and alloyed gold; the former chiefly mas¬ 
sive and as grains (from Guinea, Bengal, Sumatra,) 
and in brown iron-stone, in quartz, with needle 
ore (acicular sulphuret of bismuth, &c.) from Sibe¬ 
ria; the alloyed gold (principally from Transylva¬ 
nia) crystallized in minute cubes and octohedrons 
variously aggregated, in reticular plates, &c.—The 
ores of mercury in this case are:—the sulphurets, 
consisting of dark red cinnabar (by far the more 
common variety) massive, crystallized, and in com¬ 
bination with various mineral substances; the bright 
red cinnabar (native vermilion, much esteemed by 
painters); the hepatic mercurial ore from Idria, 
compact 
