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SALOON, placed the euclase^ a rare crystallized mineral sub- 
N\t. Hist stance, discovered by Dombey, in Peru, and 
which has also lately been found in the chlorite 
slate at Capao, near Villaricca in Brasil.—-The 
pycniie^ referred by Werner to the beryl, under 
the name of shorlous beryl, and considered as a 
variety of topaz by Haiiy. The pyrophysalite^ 
from Fahlun in Sweden, described by the same 
crystallographer as a variety of topaz_A series 
of crystals of Saxon, Brasilian, and Siberian to- 
pazeSy among which there are several new modi¬ 
fications; Saxon varieties, imbedded in the topaz 
rock, an aggregate of topaz, shorl, quartz, and 
sometimes mica.—These cases also contain the 
tourmaline and common shorl. Among the varie¬ 
ties of the former may be specified the ruhellite^ 
also called siberite (tourmaline apyre of Haiiy), a 
remarkable specimen of which, both with regard 
to form and volume, is here preserved: it was 
presented by the King of Ava to the late Colonel 
Symes, when on an embassy to that country, and 
afterwards deposited by the latter in Mr. Greville’s 
collection. Other red and blue varieties from 
. Siberia, and from Massachusets in North Ame¬ 
rica ; the flesh coloured tourmaline from Rosena 
in Moravia (which is by some considered as a 
variety ofpycnite), &c.—Varieties of common 
shorl.—In Case 4, and the adjoining opposite 
compartment, begin the substances belonging to 
the species of quartz.— Roch crystal: various 
modifications of its crystalline forms : small do¬ 
decahedral 
