28 MERC UKY. I'arts. Oxide of Mercury, Muriatic Acid, Sulphuric Acid, 76.00 100.00 Klaproth. Geognoslic Situation. In the quicksilver mines of the Palatinate, and the u civ o Deux Ponts, it is accompanied wi(;h native mercury, cinnabar, ochry brown ironstone, seldomer with fibrous malachite, massive and crystallised azure copper- ore, massive grey copper-ore, in cavities of an iron-shot clayey sandstone, sometimes in clay-ironstone, and red, li onstone. That at Idria, occurs in cavities of an indu rated clay accompanied with crystals of cinnabar; some- d™Z- iS tr " erMd witl * smdl of Geographic Situation. _ It occurs at Horzowitz in Bohemia; Moschellandsberg in Deux I onts; Morsfeld in the Palatinate; Butha in Upper Hessia, and at Almaden in Spain. Observations. It svas discovered about thirty years ago in the mines of the Palatinate by Mr Woulfe. Mercurial t