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mite and granular limestone (see the adjoining 
case, No. 21). 
(Case 16.) Asbest and amianth , with other re¬ 
lated substances: among these may be observed 
specimens illustrative of the transition from a very 
close to a loose fibrous structure; various speci¬ 
mens of the flexible asbest or amianth, with some 
antique incombustible cloth, paper, &c. made of 
it ; the varieties called mountain wood, mountain 
cork, or nectic asbest, he. separate, and in com¬ 
bination with other substances.—As bordering on 
the varieties of actinote in the adjoining opposite 
glass case, we have here the diallage , the green 
variety of which, called also smaragdite, is con¬ 
sidered by Werner as a granular variety of acti¬ 
note : in combination with saussurite (a variety of 
compact feldspar) it constitutes the verde dp 
Corsica. —In its vicinity is also placed the axe-stone y 
or Punamu-stone, thus called after one of the New 
Zealand islands, where the natives make hatchets, 
idols, he. of it: it is generally considered as a 
variety of jade. 
(Case 17.) This case is occupied by the mi¬ 
caceous, and talcose substances.—Among the va¬ 
rieties of mica or glimmer, may be specified those 
that exhibit perfectly transparent crystals; the 
beautiful red and yellow varieties, together with 
those of a metallic lustre : diverging-radiated mica, 
& c *~~Finite (micarelle of Kirwan).— Lepidolite ; 
with which is placed a specimen of what is con¬ 
sidered 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hiei i 
