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next table-case); among the most remarkable saloon. 
specimens of which is that in delicate, trans- Nat. Hist. 
parent tables of a blood red colour, from Nassau- 
Siegen, called goetliite: that in scales coating the 
cells of lava: a shining brownish black variety 
used as hair powder by the Bootchuana natives 
beyond the Great Biver in South Africa, &c. 
Cases 39 and 40. contain the different va¬ 
rieties of compact red iron-stone and red hema¬ 
tite , and of hydrous oxides of iron, the latter, com¬ 
prehending Werner’s ochrey and compact brown 
iron-stone and brown hematite, together with 
several varieties of argillaceous or clay iron-stone , 
such as common, columnar, pisiform, reniform 
clay iron-stone, meadow-ore, &c.—Salts of iron ; 
viz. carbonate of iron , or spathose iron ore, the 
primitive form of which is different from that of 
carbonate of lime: crystallized, massive, and 
botryoidal (splicerosiderite of Hausmann) in ba¬ 
salt.— Arseniate of iron , or pharmacosiderite, 
which occurs only crystallized, chiefly in cubes, 
whence Werner’s name of cube ore. [See Bri¬ 
tish Collection : Cornwall.]— Cupriferous arseni¬ 
ate — Scorodite .— Chromate of iron , among the 
specimens of which is one from Baltimore, in 
which this substance is intermixed with talc 
stained purple by chromic acid.—The pyrosma- 
lite , considered by some as a muriate of iron.— 
Phosphate of iron, crystallized (with native gold, 
from Transylvania), massive and pulverulent: 
among 
