 | | Book (edition) | | CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND. ............itum est in viscera terræ : Quasque...METCALF, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, N. ENGLAND. 1816. 0 DISTRICT OF MAINE. Be it remembered...Corresponding member of the Linnæan society of New England. ........................itum est in viscera terræ...Earth 588 Sect. 3. Sect. 4. Geological Systems, Veins, 591 Sect. 5. Strata and beds, 596 Sect. 6...certain dark blue fluates of lime from Cumberland, England, yield no light whatever. (BOURNON.) The color |  | | Book (edition) | | resembling a kidney. It prevails in the coal formations of England, Wales, and Scotland, has a rough surface...an earthy fracture. mineral occurs massive, in veins, and in tabular and tuberose masses; the former...moistened. It is met with in the clefts of iron-stone veins. ALVE'OLAR. Con- (alveolus, taining sockets,...resin. It is but found in similar localities with coal and jet. It is brittle, easily cut with a knife...circumference that which is found on the eastern shores of England, and on the coasts of Prussia and Sicily, is derived |  | | Book | | Reference is here made’ to the detailed account of coal, marble, granite, and sienite—are they not as valuable...production of eight PREFACE. 7 million tons of coal is not inconsiderable. The marble of the. ' country...in certain localities subterranean de vposits of coal, consisting of vegetable matter formerly drifted...consent found a place in mineral systems—such as coal, amber,-and mineral resins—'which ought not to be...portion of the minerals compos ing rocks or filling veins and dykes. The structure of these masses on the |  | | Book | | or efficacious agency of the origin of mineral veins, with chemical and electric forces the ; the... all sent found a place in mineral systems, as coal, amber, and mineral but this is a departure from...portion of the minerals composing rocks or filling veins and dykes. The structure of these masses on the...from or peat, through the varieties of brown coal, common coal, anthracite, and graphite, perhaps even to...compounds with sulphur, and imperfectly in glance coal. (2.) Adamantine, found in beautiful perfection |  | | Book (edition) | | of the various Kinds of Spars; formed near the Veins of dif¬ ferent Metals, and afluming their Colours...dif¬ ferent Figures and Textures : or in whole Veins. The various Kinds of them contain different Quantities...called which are not in detached Pieces, but run in Veins, or fill the perpendi¬ cular Fiffures of Strata...called Ores. The Mineral, call¬ ed in fome Parts of England Mundick, is of this Kind, containing Copper and...fomehave been of opinion, that it was a kind of Coal, others of Jet, and others of the A?npelites. What |
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