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KYAN1TE, OR CYANITE. 3- 4. Kyanlte, or Cyanite< Kyanit, IVerner. Sappare, Saussure, Voyages, § 1900. & Jour, de Phys. 1789, p. 213 Cyanite, Wid. s. 475. Id. Kirwan, vol. i. p. 209- Id. Estner, b. ii. s. G9O. Id. Emm. b. i. s. 412. Id. Nap. p. 328. Id. Lam. t. ii. p. 256—Disthcne, Ilamj, t. iii. p. 220. —La Cyanite, Broch. t. i- p. 501.—Cyanit, Reuss, b. ii. 2. s. 61. Id. Lud. b. i. s. 139- Id- Such lr th. s. 463. Id. Bert. s. 285. Id. Mohs, b. i. s. 575. Id. Ilab. *. 34—Dis- thenc, Lucas, p. 76—Cyanit, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 30—Dis thcne, Brong. t. i. p. 423. Id. Brard, p. 186.—Cyanit, Karsten, Tabel. s. 48—Kyanit, Ilaiis. s. 102—Cyanite, Kid, vol. i. p. 182—Disthene, Many, Tabl. p. 54—Kyanit, Stef fens, b. i. s. 299—Cyanit, Letiz, b. ii. s. 696.—Talkschorl, Oken, b. i. s. 303. , External Characters. Its colours are milk-white, passing into bluish-grey Berlin-blue, and sky-blue, which latter borders on celan dine-green. The white varieties are often marked with blue-coloured llame delineations. It occurs massive, disseminated; and crystallised in the following figures: 1. Oblique four-sided prism, with two opposite broad and two opposite narrow planes *. 2. Oblique four-sided prism, truncated on the two op posite acute lateral edges-f, fig- m* 3 Preceding * Forme primitive, Hauy. •f DUthenc perihcxaedrc, Hauyv