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should scarcely credit a drawing, however faithfully it might represent nature; but no drawing could convey the perpetual fluctuations of light on the works and towers of the island, and the deep ground which disappears in the blue therial mountains, the tops of which are illumined by snow. On proceeding down the Munkegade, we perceive a large, simple, and beautiful stone edifice, which was erected a few years ago: the first and only building of the kind in the northern part of Norway. This house

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side except the breast, in the opening of which small blue trimmings run down on both sides. They had large white trowsers on above boots, and a red woollen cap on their heads, with a felt hat above it. This is the characteristic dress of the fishermen of Nordland; those of Drontheim, Bergen, and Christiansand do not wear it. Their figure is still more striking. The flat faces, fair hair, which are generally believed to be universal among the in habitants of Nordland, are not often seen here

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mica, fine granular felspar, and fine granular quartz; but below, at the sea, and in the neighbourhood of the Gaard, the mica is continuous, the felspar almost entirely fail, and the quartz no longer appears common, but garnets more so. This is again mica-slate, and the gneiss rests above it. A fine granular marble, with blue stripes, and several feet in thickness, also presses through between the strata as at Cassness. The strata stretch N. N. W. and S. S. E. (h. 11.) and dip very little

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, when we do not see it in its depositaries, and especially in the manner in which it appears between Laurvig and Porsgrund. All the masses and rocks seem as if they had come from another world; they are something to which we have not been accustomed: the splendour and the freshness of the felspar, the large granular planes, the unusual blue colours, and the frequent labrador play of colours on the planes; and in the interior the distinct fresh and shining hornblende crystals, and small brown

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mainmast, was also provided with a small foremast. It was called Den Nye Pr ve (The New Proof), was almost new, a fast sailer, and commanded by Captain Smith, a young, artless, and pleasant man. About mid-day we had already lost sight of the Holstein coast to the north; but towards the south it stretched far out like a faint blue stripe, on which no objects could be discerned. Langeland next appeared in the distance, like four or five islands together; for the bendings of the sea concealed from

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Porsanger, and above Refsbottn, still higher mountains appear; but singly, and only in a blue distance, and scarcely visible. The mountains of Talvig are alone commanded towards the north, where the long-extended snow-chain of the J ckulsfiord enters deep into the ocean above Stiern e and Seylandt. I saw here distinctly the manner in which the ice is then separated in clefts from the powerful mass of snow, and precipitated into the Fiords. On Seylandt also the ice beneath the snow was not to be

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lined with crowded habitations along its banks. Opposite, I had a lively and clear view of the large village of Tuttila. A small way, however, from the river into the country, all appeared a huge and boundless forest, interrupted by nothing but the empty space, occupied here and there by small lakes, and the small blue mountains on their banks. The tract of the river is alone inhabited and animated; the remainder is dreary and dead. This view considerably lowered my idea of the great cultivation

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for the south part of the bay; and finding no where more than 3 fathoms, we tacked to the N. E. at dusk, and came to an anchor. The bottom here, and in most other parts of the bay, is a blue mud of so fine a quality, that I judge it might be useful in the manufactory of earthern ware; and I thence named this, Blue-mud Bay. It was evident from the uniform shallowness of the water, that Blue-mud Bay did not receive any stream of consequence, either in its south or western part; and to the north

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engaged in strong exercise, was proved to be very dangerous here; I lost one man in Blue-mud Bay from a want of due precaution in this particular, and at this place two others very narrowly escaped. Musketoes were numerous and exceedingly 'troublesome on shore, as also the black flies; but no venemous reptiles were seen in our limited excursions round Caledon Bay. The mercury in the barometer stood between 29,90 and 29,95 inches, in the rainy weather with strong winds from the eastward; but with

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CHAPTER VIII. Departure from Sir Edward Pellew's Group. Coast from thence westward. Cape Maria found to be an island. Limmen's Bight. Coast northward to Cape Barrow: landing on it. Circumnavigation of Groote Eylandt. Specimens of native art at Chasm Island. Anchorage in North-west Bay, Groote Eylandt; with remarks and nautical observations. Blue-mud Bay. Skirmish with the natives. Cape Shield. Mount Grindall. Coast to Caledon Bay. Occurrences in that bay, with remarks on the country and

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in different parts; and saw eighty or ninety armed natives upon the shore. To the inquiries, by signs, after the missing boat, they answered that she was gone to the westward; but none of them would venture near; nor did they pay attention to a white handkerchief which was held up, and had before been considered a signal of peace. As the boats proceeded in their search, round the island, the natives followed along the shore, with increasing numbers. One man, who was rubbed with something blue

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. The pinguin of these islands is of the kind denominated little; the back and upper parts are of a lead-coloured blue; the fore and under parts, white. They were generally found sitting on the rocks, in the day time, or in caverns near the water side. They burrow in the same manner as the sooty petrel; but, except in the time of rearing their young, do not seem, like it, to return to their holes every night. The places preferred for breeding are those at the back of the shore, where the sand is

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the whole force of the tides, one is led to suppose, that the period when the passage to sea was forced has not been very remote. Of the two chains of hills which bound the valley, the eastern one terminates at Low Head; the other comes down to the sea, five or six miles from it, on the west side of the port. The ends of these chains, when seen from directly off the entrance, appear as two clusters of hills having some resemblance to each other; and in fine weather, the distant blue heads of the

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northern island, which is one mile long and near half a mile in breadth, and found it to be covered with tufts of wiry grass intermixed with a few shrubs. Some of the little, blue pinguins, like those of Bass' Strait, harboured under the bushes; and amongst the grass and upon the shores were a number of the bernacle geese, of which we killed nine, mostly with sticks; and sixteen more were procured in the course of the day. After taking bearings from the uppermost of the small elevations of

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., towards which we kept up as much as possible. At two o'clock the wind headed, and on coming into 2 fathoms, we tacked; being then five miles from the low southern land, and three or four leagues from the northern hill, which bore N. 18 W. Not much was gained in working to windward from that time till dusk; and the anchor was then dropped in 4 fathoms, blue mud, no other land than the small hill being in sight. Wednes. 17 There being no island marked in the Dutch chart so near to the head of the

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trees cut with axes, we found remnants of bamboo lattice work, palm leaves sewed with cotton thread into the form of such hats as are worn by the Chinese, and the remains of blue cotton trowsers, of the fashion called moor-mans. A wooden anchor of one fluke, and three boats rudders of violet wood were also found; but what puzzled me most was a collection of stones piled together in a line, resembling a low wall, with short lines running perpendicularly at the back, dividing the space behind into

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. Before commencing the investigation of that island, I wished to trace the main coast further on, and if possible, give the botanists an opportunity of examining its productions; for it was upon the main that they usually made the most interesting discoveries, and only once, since entering the Gulph of Carpentaria, had we been able to land there. At seven o'clock we edged in for the coast; and on coming into 3 fathoms, dropped the anchor on a bottom of blue mud, within a mile of the shore. No

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fathoms, the anchor was dropped at four in the afternoon, one mile and a half from its south side, on a bottom of blue mud. The main land was in sight to the westward, forming a large bay with Isle Woodah, and Bickerton's Island covered the entrance, so that the ship was in complete shelter. On landing with the botanical gentlemen, I ascended a hummock at the east end of the island, where alone the view was not impeded by wood. Many of my former fixed points were visible from thence, and the main

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neighbouring islands, points, and bays. Blue-mud Bay was seen to reach further north than Mount Grindall, making it to be upon a long point, which I also named Point Grindall, from respect to the present vice-admiral of that name; further west, in the bay, was a stream running five or six miles into the land, terminating in a swamp, and with shoal banks and a low island at the entrance; all the northern part of the bay, indeed, seemed to be shallow, and to have no ship passage into it on the

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1803. February. but they were not unacquainted with bows and arrows. It is probable that they have bark canoes, though none were seen, for several trees were found stripped, as if for that purpose; yet when Bongaree made them a present of the canoe brought from Blue-mud Bay, they expressed very little pleasure at the gift, and did not seem to know how to repair it. That this bay had before received the visits of some strangers, was evinced by the knowledge which the natives had of fire arms

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1803. February. Thurs. 10. The wind had been from the southward, but on closing in with the coast at Mount Alexander it came from N. W. by N., and edged us off a little from the land. At sunset the shore was three or four miles distant, and Mount Alexander bore S. 53 W. A hummock at the furthest extreme, N. 9 E. Friday 11. We steered on till eight o'clock, and then anchored in 21 fathoms, blue mud. At daylight, the shore was found to be distant four or five miles; the furthest part then seen

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here, according to the marks on shore, did not seem to have exceeded eight feet. High water took place nearly five hours before, and seven hours after the moon's passage over the meridian; which is nearly two hours and a half earlier than in Caledon Bay, as than is earlier than in Blue-mud Bay, further south in the gulph. Wednes. 16. Thursday 17. At two in the afternoon of the 16th, the wind being moderate at N. N. W., we worked out of Melville Bay; and anchored at dusk, five miles from the

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contain, went off to the wreck under the command of Mr. Fowler, to disembark provisions and stores. A top-sail yard was set up and secured as a flag staff on the highest part of the bank, and a large blue ensign hoisted to it with the union downward, as a signal to the Bridge water. We expected, if no accident had happened, that she would come to relieve us from our critical situation so soon as the wind should be perfectly moderate; but I judged it most prudent to act as if we had no such resource

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1804. January. February. for he accepted the proposition to accompany the officers for the sake of the walk, and in the hope of obtaining some intelligence. He found the poor Cumberland covered with blue mold within side, and many of the stores in a decaying state, no precautions having been taken to preserve her from the heat or the rains; the French inventory was afterwards brought to him to be signed, but he refused it with my approbation. This new proceeding seemed to bespeak the captain

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29. SKY-BLUE (C ruleus). A paler blue. The colour of the sky. Ex. Lyc na Adonis. 30. C SIOUS (C sius). Very pale blue with a little black. The colour of blue eyes. Ex. Under side of the Wings of Lyc na Argiolus. 31. GREEN (Viridis). Equal parts of blue and yellow. Ex. Cicindela campestris. 32. RUGINOUS ( ruginosus). Green with a blue tint. The colour of the rust of copper, verdigris. Ex. Brachyrhinus Cnides. 33. PRASINOUS (Prasinus). Green with a mixture of yellow. The colour of the leaves of

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discoloured by an infinite number of minute red eggs, belonging probably to some dipterous insect of the Tipulidan tribe. There are also eggs of every intermediate shade between red and black; some again are blue and others green. They are not always of whole colours, for some are speckled like those of many birds, of which I can show you specimens, that are also shaped like birds' eggs; these I think were laid by a common moth (Odenesis potatoria); others are banded with different colours thus

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observed, when he put the skins of Libellula depressa into water, that the colours common to both sexes were in the substance of the skin, and remained fixed; while those that were peculiar to one could be taken off with a hair-pencil, and coloured the water: which therefore were superficial, and, as it were, laid ona. The yellow males, therefore, that Reaumur observed, were probably such as had the superficial blue colour which distinguishes them washed off. In Calepteryx Virgo Leach, the

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less great than nice. But, all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd; But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy: And now we must imagine first The elves present, to quench his thirst, a pure seed pearl of infant dew, Brought and besweeten'd in a blue And pregnant violet; which done, His kitling eyes begin to run Quite through the table, where he spies The horns of papery

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). Pure yellow. Ex. Bands on the Abdomen of Nomada (Apis *. b. K.). Crabro. 10. STRAW-COLOURED (Stramineus). Pale yellow with a very faint tint of blue. Ex. Phal na crat gata. 11. SULPHUREOUS (Sulphureus). Yellow with a tint of green. The colour of brimstone. Ex. Pieris Rhamni . 12. LUTEOUS (Luteus). Deep yellow with a tint of red. The colour of the yolk of an egg. Ex. Primary wings of Colias Edusa. 13. ORANGE (Aurantius). Equal parts of red and yellow. Ex. Apex of Wings of Pieris Cardamines. 14

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. 5. CUPREOUS (Cupreus). The reddening splendour of copper. Ex. Carabus nitens. 6. CHALYBEOUS (Chalybeus). The blue splendour of steel case-hardened, or of the mainspring of a [page] 28

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anterior part be white and the posterior blue, the cold will be most severe at the beginning of the winter. Hence they call this grub Bem rkelse-mask, or prognostic wormb. A similar augury as to the harvest is drawn by the Danish peasants from the Acari which infest the common dung beetle (Scarab us stercorarius, L.), called in Danish Skarnbosse or Torbist. If there are many of these mites between the fore feet, they believe that there will be an early harvest, but a late one if they abound between

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, Oliv.) very common throughout Asia Minor, in many parts of which they are collected by the poorer inhabitants and exported from Smyrna, Aleppo, and other ports in the Levant, as well as from the East Indies, whither a part of those collected are now carried. The galls most esteemed are those known in commerce under the name of blue galls, being the produce of the first gathering before the fly has issued from the gall. It will not be uninteresting to you to know, that from these when bruised may

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requisite size. It does not, however, cut open the case from one end to the other at once: the sides would separate too far asunder, and the insect be left naked. It therefore first cuts each side about half way down, and then after having filled up the fissure proceeds to cut the remaining half: so that, in fact, four enlargements are made, and four separate pieces inserted. The colour of the habit is always the same as that of the stuff from which it is taken. Thus, if its original colour be blue, and

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distinguished by the name of bombardiers (Brachinus, F.). The most common species (B. crepitans, F.), which is found occasionally in many parts of Britain, when pursued by its great enemy, Calosoma Inquisitor) F., seems at first to have no mode of escape; when suddenly a loud explosion is heard, and a blue smoke, attended by a very disagreeable scent, is seen to proceed from its anus, which immediately stops the progress of its assailant: when it has recovered from the effect of it, and the pursuit is

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beautiful golden-blue lustre: in fact, the whole body is full of light, which shines out between the abdominal segments when stretched. The light emitted by the two thoracic tubercles alone is so considerable, that the smallest print may be read by moving one of these insects along the lines; and in the West India islands, particularly in St. Domingo, where they are very common, the natives were formerly accustomed to employ these living lamps, which they called Cucuij, instead of candles in

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. Some are scarcely so big as a pea, others of the size of a large gooseberry; some globular, some bell-shaped; others, the genus Thomisus Walck. in particular, depressed like a lupine; some of a close texture like silk; others of a looser fabric resembling wool; some consisting of a single pellicle, but most of a double, of which the interior is finer and softerb; some white; others inclining to blue; others again yellow or reddish; most of them are of a whole colour, but that of Epeira fasciata

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besides these more general colours, some cocoons are blacka, some few blue or green, and others redb. Sometimes the same cocoon is of two different colours. Those of certain parasites of the tribe of Ichneumones minuti L. the motions of one of which I noticed on a former occasionc, are alternately banded with black or brown and white, or have only a pale or white belt in the middle, which gives them a singular appearance. In both cases the difference in colour depends upon the different tints

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a pallid or brownish colour; but in some insects, as Staphylinus hybridus, murinus, c., Buprestis Gigas, it is of a beautiful green or blue; and it exhibits the puncta, stri and other modes of sculpture of the elytra very distinctly, the pores of which usually perforate this membraneb. Just under the shoulders of these organs you may observe an oblong and sometimes roundish spot, occasioned by the hypoderma in that part being particularly tense, and covering a cavity or pocket which appears to

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which an acid of this description, secreted in its sialisteria, is employed by a moth to soften cocoonb; and Lister mentions a species of Iulus which produced one resembling that of antsc; but this last is the most powerful of all. The fact that blue flowers when thrown into an ant-hill become tinged with red has been long known; but Mr. Fisher of Sheffield, about l670, seems to have been the first who ascertained that this effect is caused by an acid with which ants abound, and which may be

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the cabbage-butterfly, Herold observed that this substance first assumed a fine flocky appearance and a blue-green colour, and that from it so changed were produced tender bundles of muscular fibres, extending in various directions, the epiploon itself decreasing in proportion as they were formedc. ii. Substance and Parts. The muscular fibre in vertebrate animals appears to consist of globules arranged in a series, and of no larger diameter than those of the blood, the mean diameter of which in

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; at others, they are green or blue, and even black. The colour of spots also often varies. In some individuals of Pentatoma oleracea they are pale, and in others red. The number and shape of spots are also often inconstant. Many of the species of Coccinella so abound in these variations, that nothing short of the most careful examination can enable you to distinguish the species from the variety. Insects vary also in size: but as this is never assumed as a specific character, it will not

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D. BLUE. The characteristic colour, which is Berlin-blue, is placed in the middle of the series, and all those varieties that contain red in their composition, on the one side, and those containing green, on the other. It is rarer among minerals than the preceding; blackish blue connects it with black, sky blue with green; and it is connected with red by violet-blue and azure blue. The following are its varieties. a. Blackish-blue is Berlin-blue mixed with much black and a trace of red. It

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f. Bluish black. Bl ulichschwarz. Noir bleuatre. C rulescenti-niger. D. BLUE. Blau. Bleu. C ruleus. a. Blackish-blue. Schwarzlich blau. Bleu noiratre. b. Azure-blue. Lazurblau. Bleu d'azur. Azureo-c ruleus. c. Violet-blue. Veilchenblau. Bleu violet. Violaceo-c ruleus. d. Lavender-blue. Lavendelblau. Bleu de lavande. Lavendula-c ruleus. e. Plum-blue: Pflaumenblau. Bleu de prune. Pruneo-c ruleus. f. Berlin-blue, or Prussian blue. Berlinerblau. Bleu de Prusse. Berolino-c ruleus. g. Indigo-blue

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green with blue. NAMES OF THE COLOURS. The names of the colours are derived, 1st, From certain bodies in which they most commonly occur, as milk-white, siskin-green, liver-brown; 2d, From metallic substances, as silver-white, iron-black, and gold-yellow; 3d, From names used by painters, as indigo blue, verdigris-green, and azure-blue; 4th, From that colour in the composition which is next in quantity to the principal colour, as bluish-grey, yellowish-brown, c.; and, 5th, From the names of

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usually accompanied by the earthy variety. These crystals, which possess the softness and transparency of selenite, become blue by exposure to the air, or a moderate heat. (WOODBRIDGE.) 2. EARTHY PHOSPHATE OF IRON. The original color of this variety is generally grayish, yellowish, or greenish white, or with a very slight tinge of blue; but, by exposure to the air, it absorbs oxigen, and becomes indigo blue of different shades, sometimes pale. It is sometimes in small masses, considerably compact

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, on the contrary, proceeds by degrees through the whole mass of the mineral. This change takes place more or less rapidly in different minerals. The colours either become paler, when they are said to fade, or they become darker, and pass into other varieties. Thus chrysoprase, rose quartz, and red cobalt-ochre become paler; whereas sky-blue fluor-spar becomes green, pearl-grey corneous silver-ore sometimes changes to brown, and lastly into black, and blue iron-earth changes from white, through

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g. Milk-white is snow-white mixed with a little Berlin-blue and ash-grey. It passes into smalt-blue. The colour of skimmed milk. Examples, calcedony and common opal. h. Tin-white differs from the preceding colour principally in containing a little more grey, and having the metallic lustre. It passes into pale lead- grey. Examples, native antimony and native mercury. B. GREY. This, which is one of the palest colours, is a compound of white and black, so that it forms the link by which these two

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sometimes called smoky topaz. Fine specimens have been found near Hanover, Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania. (SEYBERT.) In Maine, at Topsham, amorphous fragments are not uncommon; and it is sometimes crystallized. 3. YELLOW QUARTZ. Its color is a pale yellow, sometimes honey or straw yellow. It has been called citrine; also false, or Bohemian topaz. Good specimens are brought from Carinthia. It is found in several parts of Pennsylvania, east of the Blue Ridge. (WISTER.) 4. BLUE QUARTZ. Its color is blue

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different colors; or it is partly limpid, and partly colored. The importance of this subspecies permits several subdivisions, founded on color, or the reflection of light. Var. 1. BLUE SAPPHIRE. (Oriental sapphire.) The term Sapphire has, in the arts, been peculiarly appropriated to this variety of color. The finest specimens exhibit an azure or indigo blue. When bluish white, the Germans call it luchs saphir. Sometimes one part of the crystal is destitute of color, or different colors are

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smalt blue. This mineral preserves its color in oil, and leaves a blue trace when rubbed on paper. The color of its streak is a light blue. Even when not friable, it is easily broken, and readily yields to a knife. It is seldom quite opaque, and its crystals are sometimes nearly or quite transparent. Its spec. grav. varies from 3.23 to 3.60. It very frequently occurs in small, shining crystals, of which the primitive form is an octaedron with scalene triangles. It has four or five secondary forms