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Nat. Hist. 
has been often mistaken for beryl; the aspara¬ 
gus stone of the same author; the moroxite; the 
phosphorite or earthy phosphate of lime, and the 
pulverulent variety of the same (earth of Mar- 
morosh) which was formerly considered as fluate 
of lime.* 
In the glazed 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 25.) Contains the ores of platina, gold 
and mercury.—Platina in grains from Peru and 
Brasil: the latter mixed with grains of greyish 
yellow gold.—Native gold, subdivided into pure 
and brass yellow gold ; the former chiefly mas¬ 
sive and as grains (from Guinea, Bengal, Suma- 
' tra, Ireland, &c.) and in brown iron stone, in 
quartz, with needle ore (acicular sulphuret of 
bismuth) from Siberia, &c,; the brass yellow gold 
(principally fromTransylvania) crystallized in mi¬ 
nute cubes and octoliedrons 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 combination with 
various 
* The cabinets and cases destined for the reception of the re¬ 
maining calcareous salts, and of those of Barytes, Strontian, 
are not yet finished. 
