A CTIN’OTUS, aftinote, or aftlnolit^, 44a; 
four fpecies of, 445. 
Adamantinus, adamantine earth, or diamond- 
fpar, 443, 465. 
Adamas, the diamond, 443, 465. 
Adit, or avenue to a mine, 427, 8. 
Agaric mineral, 448. 
Aggregate Earths, 443, 466. 
Ailcin’s fyftem of mineralogy, 441. 
Alabafter, 449. 
Alcyonium chonoides, foflil, 530. 
Almond-ftone, 470. 
Alumen, alum, 443; feathered, 445 ; na¬ 
tive, &c. 474. 
Aluminaris, alumine, 442, 452. 
Amarum, bitter fait, 443, 473. 
Amarus, bitter earth, 443, 463. 
Ambra, ambergris, 443 3 not a mineral fub- 
ftance, 477. 
Amianthus, or alheftus, 445. 
A-mphibiolithus, 444; foflil tortoife, frog, 
crocodile, &c. 523, 4. 
Amygdalites, amygdalite, or almond-ftone, 
443 3 fifty-five fpecies pf, 470, r. 
Anomia, many kinds found foflil, 528, 9. 
Anthropolithus, 444; fofiil human fkeleton 
found at Guadaloupe, 520. 
Antimony, 444, 511. 
Ape, fkeleton of, petrified, 52r. 
Apatites, apatite, 4423 feven fpecies, 451. 
Aquamarine, 459. 
Ardefia, or fiate, 443, 455, 6. 
Arena, fand, 435, 4435 eight fpecies, 46.3. 
Arenarius, fand-ftone, 4433 the various fpe¬ 
cies, 472, 3. 
Argentum, filver, 444, 483. 
Argilla, or clay, 435, 442 3 various kinds, 
45 *. 3 - „ 
Argillaceous Earths, 442, 452-458. 
Armenian ftone, 491. 
Arfenicum, arfenic, 444, 512. 
Afbeftoid, 445. 
Afbeftus, amianthus, or imperilhable mine¬ 
ral, 442 ; ten fpecies, 445. 
Afpbaltum, or mineral pitch, 475, 6. 
Avanlurine, a fpecies of fandftone, 472. 
Augite, a variety of bafaltic hornblende, 
446. 
Aurum, gold, 443, 480. 
Barium, a metal from barytes, 444, 510. 
Barytes, or heavy earth, 442; its nine fpe¬ 
cies, 446, 7. 
Bafaltes, bafalt, 443, 456, 7. 
Bell-metal, 493. 
Beryl, 459. 
Berzelius’s fyftem of mineralogy, 441. 
Birmingham Mining and Copper Company, 
43 °- 
Bifmuturn, bifrouth, 444, 510. 
Bitumen, 443 5 includes naphtha, tar, coal, 
&c. 475. 
Black-lead, 477, 8. 
Blende, or blackjack, 506. 
Blood-ftone, 4653 metallic, 497. 
Bog-day, 454. 
Bole, 453 5 green, 454. 
Bologna or Bononian ftone, 447. 
Boracites, boracite, 442, 451. 
Borax, 443. 
Bovey-coal, 477. 
Brafs copper-ore, 493. 
Breccia, or pudding-ftone, 443; the fpecies, 
47G a. 
Brick-clay, 453. 
Brochant’s fyftem^ 439* 
BromePs fyftem, 438. 
Brongniart’s fyftem, 439. 
Buffon’s opinion on the mineralogy of the 
ancients examined, 434, 
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MINERALOGY. 
Caementum, cement, trafs, or terras, 443, 
455 - 
Calamine, or oxyd of zink, 506. 
Calcareous Earths, 442. 
Calcium, the metal from lime, 444, 510. 
Calomel, or mild muriat of lime, 489. 
Cannel-coal, 477. 
Caoutchouk, mineral, 476, 7. 
Caput Medufse, petrified, 527, 8. 
Carbonat of lead, or white lead, 500 5 pro- 
cefs for making it, 501. 
Cariofus, or rotten-ftone, 443, 455. 
Carnelian, or cornelian, 464. 
Cat’s-eye felfpar, 463, 
Cawk, or ponderous fpar, 447. 
Cerium, ceiite, 517. 
Chalcedonius, calcedony, 443, 463, 4. 
Chalk, 447, 448 3 black, 456.. 
Chenevix’s Obfervations, 440. 
Clilorogranatus, or green earth, 443, 463. 
Chromium, chrome, 444, 516. 
Chryfobervl, 459. 
Chryfolite, 459, 60. 
Chryfoprafe, 464. 
Cimolite, 454. 
Cinnabar, native, 490. 
Circonius, zircon, jargon, or mock-diamond, 
443 . 463 - 
Clarice’s chemical fyftem of mineralogy, 
44 °. 1. 
Clay, thirty fpecies of, 452, 3. 
Coal, various kinds of, 47 7 ; great advan¬ 
tage of, in manufadures, 491. 
Cobaltum, cobalt, 444, 513, 4. 
Columbium, 444, 516- 
Copper, 4903 various kinds and combina¬ 
tions of, 491-3. 
Copper-mines, how difcovered, 426; when 
firft worked, 428 ; progreflive hiftory, 429; 
declining, 431 ; prefent ftate, 491. 
Coral, petrified, 530. 
Cornifli mines, their ufual direftion, 4253 
miners, charader of, 429, 431. 
Corundrum, or diamond-fpar, 465. 
Crabs and Jobfters, petrified, 527. 
Creta, chalk, See. 442; account of the fpe¬ 
cies, 448. 
Crocodile, petrified, 524. 
Cronftedt’s fyftem, 438. 
Crofiopetra, or crofs-ftone, 442 5 three fpe¬ 
cies, 447. 
Cryftals, formation of, 435 5 primary and 
fecondary forms, 437. 
Culm, 477. 
Cuprum, copper, 444; generic c.haraders, 
490; l'pecies, 491-3. 
Cuvier, his dilcovery of unknown animals, 
520; his lkill and diligence acknowledged 
by Mr. Parkinfon, 523 5 examines the 
bones of fome crocodiles, 524 ; of a fala- 
roander which had been taken for a man, 
5 *S- 
Davy, (Dr.) his difeovery of tne new me¬ 
tals, 508 ; his theory of earthquakes, 509. 
Derbyfttire fpar, 450. 
Devonflhire and Cornwall, the mining-coun¬ 
ties of England, 427; both included in the 
duchy of Cornwall, 428 3 and with reafon, 
430. 
Diamond, and diamond-fpar, 4^5, 
Divining-rod for difeovering mines, 426. 
Earths, the mothers of ftones, 434, 5 ; the 
feven orders of, 442; talcofe, 442, 4455 
ponderous, '442, 446 3 calcareous, 442, 
447; argillaceous, 442, 452'; filiceous, 
442, 458 ; adamantine, 442, 465 ; aggre¬ 
gate, 443, 466. 
Echini, various fpecies found in a petrified 
ftate, 528. 
9 Z 
Eleflri.city of minerals, 437. 
Elephant, petrified bones of, 522. 
Emerald, 460. 
England long an importer of copper utenfils, 
429 ; now an exporter of the fame arti¬ 
cles, and to the fame countries, 430. 
Englifli Copper Company, 429. 
Entoinolitlius, foflil infeib, 444, 527, 
Entrochi, 527, 8. 
Epfom fait, 473. 
Ethiops mineral, 490. 
Euclafe, 459. 
Feldfpatum, felfpar, 443, 462. 
Ferrilite, 457. 
Ferrum, iron, 444; the charafters and fpe- 
cies, 494-7. . 
Eilices, or ferns, in a petrified ftate, 533. 
Filtering-ftone, 472. 
Fire-damp, to prevent, 448. 
Fifti in a foflil ftate, 526. 
Fluor, 4425 feven fpecies of, 450, I, 
Forefts deftroyed by the Romans, 533. 
Follils. See Petrifaftions. 
Fuller’s earth, 452. 
Gadolinite, or Yttria, 461. 
Galena, or fulphuret of lead, 503. 
Garnet, 460. 
Gas-light from pitch inftead of coal, 475. 
Gemma, or precious ftones. the firft of mi¬ 
nerals that attrafled notice, 434, 443 j 
the fpecies, 458. 
Giant’s Caufeway compared with Staffa, 457. 
Glauber’s fait, 553. 
Glucina, glucine, 443 ; a fingle fpecies, 461. 
Glucium, the metal from glucine earth, 
444, 461, 510. 
Gneifi'um, gneifs, 4433 thirty-one fpecies,, 
469, 70. 
Gold, 443 ; mines, 480; alloys, 481 j fpe- 
cific gravity, value, &c. 482. 
Granites, granite, 443, 466-9. 
Graphites, black-lead, 443; three fpecies 
°t» 4 17 , 8^ 
Greek fire, 476. 
Grenfell on the advantage of our copper.* 
mines, 471. 
Grindftone, 472. 
Guadaloupe, a volcanic illand, 521. 
Gypfum, 442, 449. 
Hsir-falt, or capillary alum, 474. 
Flatfield-marlh, and its foflil wood, 533, 
Hauy’s fyftem of mineralogy and cryftallo- 
graphy, 4393 commended by Chevenix, 
440. 
Helix, the fnail-fhell, petrified, 529. 
Helmintholithus, foflil worms, 444, 527. 
Hematite, 497. 
Hepaticus, hepatic earth, or liver-ftone, 442, 
449- 
Hippopotamus, teeth and bones of, 523. 
Hornblcnda, hornblende, 442 3 three fpecies 
of, 446. 
Horfe, foflil remains of the, 522. 
Human fkeleton found foflil at Guadaloupe, 
520. 
Humus, mould, 442. 
Hyacinth, 459 ; garnet, 460. 
Hydrargyrum, mercury, or quickfilver, 444 ■ 
charadters and fpecies, 489, 90. 
Jargon, or Zircon, 443, 463. 
jafpis, jafper, 443. 
liftKyolithus, or foflil fifh, 444, 526. 
jet, 477 - 
Inflammables, the third clafs of. minerals 
443j 475- 
Inolithus, 442. 
Infcdh of the winglefs kind, foflil, 527, 
Iridium, a metal lately difcovered in plati. 
mm, 479 j its qualities, 507, 8. 
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