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III. Minerals applicable to certain Chemical Manufactures, and their

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VII. Materials applicable to common and Decorative Construction.

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Slates

Flagstones

Common Lime.........

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Bricks and Brick-clays................................

Drain Tiles..........

VIII. Refractory Materials, Pottery Clays, and Pottery.

Plumbago or Graphite........

Soapstone........

Potstone

Mica Rock.......

Mica

Asbestus........

Fire Clays........

Sandstone, refractory.........

Pottery Clay and Pottery..........

IX. Materials for Grinding and Polishing.

Whetstones

Hones

Bath-brick..

Tripoli.....

Grindstones..

Millstones

X. Minerals applicable to the Fine Arts and to Jewelry.

Lithographic Stone.......

Porphyries......

Labradorite.............................

Albite.........

Perthite........

Jasper Conglomerate......

Amethystine Quartz.....

Agates......

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Collections of Rocks, Minerals and Ores, exhibited by Dr.
Honeyman, Professor Howe and Mr. H. S. Poole................. 147

ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. Drawing showing the mode of occurrence of Native Copper at Michipicoten Island, Lake Superior,............

2. View of Fairbanks' Petroleum Well, at Petrolia, O...............................................

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