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86'8 Lead. Second Subspecies. Compact Galena or Lead-Glance. Bleisehweif, Werner. Plumbum Plumbago, Wall. t. ii. p, 305.—Bleisehweif, Werner; Pabst. b. i. s. 114. Id. Wid. s. 845.—Galene cornpacte, De Born, t. ii. p. 355.—Compact Galena, Kiriv. vol. ii. p. 218.— Bleisehweif, Emm. b. ii. s. 377.—Plomb sulphur^ cornpacte, Haiti/, t. iii. p. 461.—La Galene cornpacte, Brock, t. ii. p. 301 • —Bleisehweif, Reuss, b. iv. s. 188. Id. Lud. b. i. s. 259-— Dichter Bleiglanz, Suck. 2ter th. s. 312.—Bleisehweif, Bert. s. 447. Id. Mohs, b. iii. s. 486. Id. Ilab. s. 127.—Dichtes Bleiglanz, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 71—Plomb sulphure cornpacte, Brong. t ii. p. 195.—Bleisehweif, Karsten, Tabel. s. 6‘8. Id- Haus. s. 74—Plomb sulphure cornpacte, Hatty, Tabl. p. 80- —Compact Galena, Aik in, p. 45. External Characters. Its colour is fresh lead-grey, somewhat lighter than that the preceding subspecies; sometimes it slightly inclines to steel-grey. It occurs massive, disseminated, and specular. exter** ^ ecu ^ ar var i e ty is smooth, shining or splendent, ' is metalHc” 7 * ” ° nly . stron g^ glimmering, and the lustre • ^ racture * s even, which in some varieties passes into flat conchoidal. T he fragments are indeterminate angular, not particu larly sharp edged. It seldom occurs in thin and curved lamellar concretions- The