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long most of the varieties of what 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 h^patique, which latter is de¬ 
composed common and radiated iron pyrites and 
sometimes brown iron stone.— Magnetic pyrites^ 
which 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 ivootz, a very hard kind of 
iron from the East Indies; magnetic iron sand. 
‘'{CaseZ^.') 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, transparent 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. 
Na.t. Hist. 
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