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SALOON, specimensillustrative of the transition from a very 
Nat. Hist, 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, &c. 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 diallagite (diallage), 
the green variety of wliich, called also smaragdite, 
is considered by ¥/erner as a granular variety of 
actinote : in combination with saussurite (a va¬ 
riety of compact feldspar) it constitutes the verde 
di Corsica, Another variety is called omphacite 
by Werner. — In its vicinity is also placed the 
aoce-stone^ or Punamu-stone, thus called after 
one of the New Zealand Islands, where the na¬ 
tives make hatchets, idols, &c. of it: it is gene¬ 
rally considered as a variety of jade. 
Case 17. This case is occupied by the mica¬ 
ceous and talcose substances.—Among the varie¬ 
ties of mica or glimmer, may be specified those 
that exhibit perfectly transparent crystals ; the 
beautiful red and rellow varieties, together with 
those of a metallic lustre : diverging-radiated 
micaj&c. —Finite (micarelle of Kirwan).— Lepi- 
dolite j with which is placed a specimen of what 
is considered as compact lepidolite.—Interme¬ 
diate between mica and talc, is the chlorite, 
' among the varieties of which are the earthy, 
common, foliated, and the slaty: the last of these, 
with 
