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( 20 ) III. ORDER.—MERCURY. This Order contains five species, viz. Native Mercury* Native Amalgam, Mercurial Horn-Ore, Mercurial He patic Ore, and Cinnabar. 1. Native Mercury or Quicksilver. Gediegen Quecksilber, Werner. Argentum vivum, Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxiii.—Mercurius vir- gineus; Hydrargyrum nativum, Wall. t. ii. p. 3 48 Mercure natif, Rome de Lisle, t. iii. p. 152 Gediegen Quecksilber, Wid s. 719- Id. Wern. Pabst. b. i. s. 6—Na tive Mercury, Kirm. vol. ii. p 223.—Gedie'gen Quecksilber, Emm. b. ii. s 129.—Mercure natif, Lam. t. i p. 166. id. Brock, t. ii. p. 96. Id. Hauy, f iii. p. 423—Gediegen Queck silber, Reuss, b. iii. s. 269. Id Lud. b. i. s. 205. Id Suck. ~ ter th. s. 109. Id. Bert. s. 432. Id. Mohs, b. iii. s. 93.-96. Mercure natif, Lucas, p. 109—Gediegen Quecksilber, Leon, hard, Tabel. s. 51.—Mercure natif, Brong. t. ii. p. 241. Id. Brard, p. 253—Gediegen Quecksilber, Karsten, Tabel. s. 60. Id. Haus. s. 69—Native Quicksilver, Kid, vol. ii. p. 93— Mercure natif, Hauy, Tabl. p. 77.—Native Quicksilver, Aikin, p. 23. External Characters. Its colour is pure tin-white. It occurs perfectly fluid ; and in larger or smaller par ticles or globules in the cavities of other ores of mercury. It is splendent, and the lustre is metallic. It