312 FROM BUKOREST, 
contain gold. Even the common ore, when ex- 
posed to the heat of a charcoal furnace, (after 
burning with a beautiful blue colour like that of 
salt cast upon ignited coal, and yielding a pecu- 
liar smell which has been compared, but impro- 
perly, to that of horse-radish^) may be taken out, 
and it will be found spotted all over with 
minute globules of gold. One specimen which 
we treated in this manner has above a hun- 
dred spheroidal particles, or beads of gold^ 
which appear all over its surface. We 
purchased several specimens of the tellurium, 
both in its massive and crystalline form '. The 
(l) We bought also minerals, from other mines of Tiansi/lvanin, 
in the house of the Inspector. For the advantage of other travellers, 
perhaps it will be better to give a brief list of the principal substances 
to be purchased at this place. 
1. The richest tellurets of gold, whereof lOOlhs. weight is valued 
at one thousand florins. This is the grey gold of Born. 
2. Native tellurium, crystallized in regular hexagons. 
3. Ditto, in laminary forms. 
4. Auruni graphicum, from Offenlanya, or plumhiferous tdluret 
of gold and silver. 
5. Silver Fahlerz, crystallized. 
6. Crystallized stilphuret of antimony, \\\\.\\ laminary native gold, 
from Toplitz in Transylvania. 
7. Native gold, from the same place, in rich laminary forms. 
8. Amethysts, of a fine colour, from Porcuna in 7\ansylvania. 
9. Siliciferous oxide of manganese, crystallized, and of a beau- 
tiful rose-colour. 
10, Sulphurets of arsenic, red and yellow, in transparent crystals, 
&c, &c. 
