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240 IRON. Second Subspecies. Iron-Mica or Micaceous Iron-Glance. Eisenglimmer, Werner. Mica ferrea Wall. t. ii. p . 248-Mine de Fer micacee grise, Rome de L. t. in. p. 205—Eisenglimmer, Werner, Pabst. b. i. s. 152. Id. Wid. s. 805—Micaceous Iron-ore, Kirrv. vol. ii. p. 184—Mme de Fer micacee grise, Lam. t. i. p. 241.— Eisenglimmer, Emm. b. ii. s . 306—Fer oligiste ecailleux, Hauy, t. iv. p. 45—Le Fer micace, Brock, t. ii. p. 247.— Schuppiger Eisenglanz, Reuss, b. iv. s. 71— Eisenglimmer, Lud. b. i. s. 243. Id. Suck. 2ter th. s. 262. Id. Bert. s. 405. Id. Mohs, b. ni. s. 378—Schuppiger Eisenglanz, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 64—Fer oligiste ecailleux, Brong. t. ii. p. 162.— Schuppiger Eisenglanz, Karsten, Tabel. s. 64—Schuppiger Blutstein, Haus. s. 106— Fer ecailleux, Ilamj, Tabl. p. .95.— Micaceous Ironglance, Aikin, p. 38. / External Characters. ' Its colour is iron-black, of different degrees of inten- sity: thin plates or folia, when held between the eye and the light, appear blood-red. It occurs most commonly massive and disseminated: also crystallised in small thin six-sided tables, in which the terminal planes are set alternately oblique and straight on the lateral planes. These tables sometimes intersect each other, so as to form cells. I he surface of the crystals is smooth and splendent. Internally it is splendent, which in some varieties passes into shining, and the lustre is metallic. The