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natural history. (Minerals.) 
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See., to which are also referred the natrolite of Klaproth, the needle- 
stone of Werner, the scolicite, the mesolite , krokalite , &c. ;— anal- 
time, among the crystallized varieties of which are remarkably large 
specimens of the trapezoidal and other modifications from Fassa and 
the Seiser Alpe in Tyrol ;—stilbite and heulandite, or foliated zeolite 
in splendid specimens from Iceland, Faroe, and Scotland; — brewster- 
ite;—laumontite or lomonite, also called efflorescent zeolite, because 
most of its varieties are subject to decomposition by exposure to the 
air;—a suite of specimens of comptonite from Vesuvius, lining the 
cavities of a pyroxenic lava, &c., accompanied by gismondine and other 
crystallized substances; together with thomsonite, which is supposed 
to be only a variety of comptonite ;—gmelinite or hydrolite ;— levine, 
and several other scarce zeolitic substances. 
Case 29. To the same family of minerals belongs the prehnite, the 
grass-green variety of which, discovered in South Africa by the Abbe 
Rochon, has been mistaken for chrysolite, chrysoprase, and even emerald; 
—to this also belongs the koupkolite of Vauquelin. The substance known 
by the name of Chinese jade or you-stone (kyonk tshein of the Bur¬ 
mese) is likewise placed with prehnite, to w 7 hich it has been referred by 
Count Bournon, but no chemical analysis has as yet been given of it: 
(among the vessels wrought out of Chinese jade in this Case is a cup, 
the gift of the king of Ava to the late Lieut.-Col. Burney, when British 
Resident at that court, and by him presented to the British Museum ;) 
—some varieties of nephrite appear, from external characters, to be 
nearly related to this substance. In this Case also is placed the har - 
motome or cross stone, (formerly called andreolite , after Andreasberg, in 
the Hartz, where it was first discovered,) divided into baryte-harmotome 
and lime- or potassa-harmotome, to which latter are to be referred the 
Vesuvian minerals called zeagonite, gismondine , or abrazite , and the 
philipsite. ( Of andreolite, a magnificent specimen is deposited, pre¬ 
sented by King George IV.)—the herschelite, from Aei Reale in Sicily. 
*—The remaining space in this Case and the greater part of 
Cases 30 and 31 are occupied chiefly by feldspathic substances and 
minerals more or less nearly related to feldspar. The most remarkable 
and important species is the common feldspar (orthoclase of Breithaupt), 
among the crystallized varieties of which may be particularized—the 
fine green variety from the Ural, called amazon stone ; the suites of 
variously-modified crystals from Baveno in Piedmont, from lake Ilmen 
in the Ural, and from Somnitz, &c., in Silesia; feldspar with em¬ 
bedded crystals and fragments of quartz (graphic stone, graphic gra¬ 
nite), from Siberia, &c.;—the adularia or naker feldspar , principally 
found on mount St. Gothard, but not in the valley of Adula from 
which its name is derived : the fine variety from Ceylon, when cut en 
cabochon , is called moon-stone ; and a yellow naker feldspar with reddish 
dots has obtained the name of sun-stone, which is also sometimes given to 
the beautiful avanturino variety of common feldspar placed in this glass- 
case;— ice-spar and sanidine or glassy feldspar, both nearly allied to 
orthoclase ;—the albite or cleavelandite, the finest specimens of w r hich 
are those from Dauphine and Siberia; the pericline ,united by some 
mineralogists with the preceding species, from St. Gothard, Tyrol, 
Sec .;—the anorthite from Vesuvius;—the oligoclase , also called natron- 
spodumen, to which may be referred the crystals occurring in several 
