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Greenland.—The pyrope , or Bohemian garnet, saloon. 
in rounded grains, &c.—The common garnet, the nat. Hist. 
predominant colours of which are brown and 
green : among these may be mentioned the va¬ 
riety which, from its resemblance to resin, is 
called colophonite. To this also belongs the ele¬ 
gant variety from Kamschatka, denominated 
grossular , on account of the resemblance which 
its separate crystals bear to a gooseberry.—Tra¬ 
pezoidal and emarginated crystals of the black 
garnets, called melanite , found particularly in the 
neighbourhood of Frascati.—The allochroite , also 
called splintery garnet, from Drammen in Nor¬ 
way.—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 from 
Ceylon, a mineral, which was supposed to contain 
zirconia, till a more accurate analysis proved it 
to be a substance nearly allied to garnet and 
vesuvian: some polished pieces of the same, being 
the true hyacinth.—Among the specimens of 
vesuvian or idocrase , the more conspicuous are the 
large beautiful crystals (the unibinaire of Haiiy) 
discovered by Laxmann on the banks of the Yilui 
in Kamschatka, imbedded in a steatitic rock; 
those from Vesuvius, where this substance occurs 
accompanied by other volcanic ejections, have, 
in Italy, obtained the appellation of volcanic 
gems, hyacinths, and chrysolites.— Gehlenite . — 
In this case, though not very closely allied to 
the garnet tribe, is also deposited the staurolite 
(called 
