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urn, a new mineral alkali, has been discovered. 
—Indianitey one of the matrices of the common 
corundum of the Carnatic.— Albite, 
Case 13 is principally appropriated to the 
substances of the garnet tribe. Among the more 
remarkable varieties of the noble garnet is that 
in curved-lamellar concretions, found massive in 
Greenland.—The pyrope^ or Bohemian garnet, 
in rounded grains, &c.—The common garnet^ 
the predominant colours of which are brown 
and green : among these may be mentioned the 
variety which, from its resemblance to resin, is 
called colophonite. To this also belongs the 
elegant variety from Kamschatka, denominated 
grossular, on account of the resemblance wliich 
its separate crystals bear to a gooseberry.—Tra¬ 
pezoidal and emarginated crystals of the black 
garnets, called melanitey found particularly in 
the neighbourhood of Frascati.—The allochroitey 
also called splintery garnet, from Drammen in 
Norway. — The aplome^ whose dodecahedral 
crystals differ from those of the garnet in being 
streaked in the direction of the short diagonal 
of their rhomboidal planes.— The cinnamon- 
stone (essonite of Haiiy) from Ceylon, a mineral 
which was supposed to contain zirconia, till a 
more accurate analysis proved it to be a sub¬ 
stance nearly allied to garnet and vesuvian: 
some polished pieces of the same, being the true 
hyacinth.—Among the specimens of vesuvian or 
idocrasCy the more conspicuous are the large 
beautiful 
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