YELLOW AMBER. 405 Constituent Parts. It is composed of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen. An acid named Succinic is obtained from it by distilla tion. Geognostic Situation. This mineral occurs in beds of bituminous-wood and moor-coal; also in a conglomerate formed by the aggre gation of fragments on the sea shores, in sandy soil, and frequently tloating on the sea. It is said to have been observed imbedded in flcetz limestone, bituminous marl- slate, slate-coal, and has been lately met with imbedded in floetz gypsum. Geographic Situation. Europe.—It is thrown up by the sea on the coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, and imbedded in a gravel- pit at Kensington, near London. It occurs in greatest quantity in East Prussia; also on the coast of the Hal tic, in Courland, Liefland, Russia, Swedish Pomerania, and West Prussia. It is found in a sandy soil in Poland, at a great distance from the sea, where it is intermixed with the fruit of the Pious abies. It is imbedded in brown- coal in the department of Aisne in France ; in slate-clay in the Lower Alps; imbedded in a bituminous marl-slate at Aarau in Switzerland ; on the coasts of fcicily; in C c 3 s P ain > Irona the foregoing passages, it seems very probable, that the opinion of ^olinus respecting the origin of nmber is correct: he says that it was origi nally brought from the northern sea, through Pannonia and Illyria, into tire country Ijordering on the river I'o; and hence Phaeton’s sisters, or the pop- torn of that river, are fabled to have wept amber ; this substance being easily mistaken for a vegetable gum Kid's Mineralogy, vol. ii. p. 37.