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Nat. Hist. 
solid jet (pitch coal of Werner); as eries of the 
elastic bitumen from Derbyshire, in its different 
states of induration; with this is placed an in¬ 
flammable fossil substance found by Humboldt in 
South America, where it is called dapeche , which 
has several of the properties of the common 
caoutchouc or India rubber ; also the retinasphaU 
turn found at Bovey, and that from Wildshut and 
Bergen in Bavaria; the peculiar resinous sub¬ 
stance discovered in digging the tunnel at High- 
gate, &c.—To the varieties of amber is added 
some wood converted into brown coal, and a 
small capsular fruit, both of which are found, 
together with that inflammable substance, on the 
coast of Prussia.—The mellite or honey stone, 
strictly speaking a saline substance, but geog- 
nostically related to amber, near which it is 
placed in the system.— Sulphur , crystallized and 
massive, with selenite, sulphate of strontian, 
&c.; the same found sublimed near the craters 
of volcanoes— Graphite , commonly called black 
lead, massive, disseminated in porcelain earth, 
&c. —A few specimens of black coal .— Brown 
coal , to which belongs the well known Bovey 
coal . *— Dysodile, or papyraceous brown coal.— 
Among the specimens of anthracite or kohlen- 
blende (to which may be referred the Kilkenny 
coal), is a specimen from Kongsberg in Norway, 
with native silver. 
{Case 2.) The diamond, though combustible, 
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