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next table-case); among the most remarkable 
specimens of which is that in delicate, trans¬ 
parent tables of a blood red colour, from Nassau- 
Siegen, c‘d\\edi goethite: that in scales coating the 
cells of lava: a shining brownish black variety 
used as hair powder by the Bootchuana natives 
beyond the Great River in South Africa, he. 
Cases 39 and 40 contain the different va¬ 
rieties compact red iron-stone and red hema¬ 
tite^ and of hydrous oxides ofiron^ 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 ; 
viZc 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- 
die.—-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 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
