NATIVE TELLURIUM. 46S Geographic Situation. It has been hitherto only found at Facebay in Tran- silvan ia. Observations. 1. It bears a very striking resemblance to Native An timony, from which it is distinguished by its inferior hardness, its lower specific gravity, and its smaller gra nular concretions. 2. It is known in older works on Mineralogy under the names Aurum problcmalicum, Aurum paradoxum, and White Gold ore. 3. The alchemists distinguished metallic substances by the same names that the ancients had applied to the pla nets,—a practice which has been adopted in the present mstance ; and the metal we are now describing was na med, by Klaproth, the discoverer of it, from our own Planet the Earth, or “ Tellus,” while Kirwan names it fylcan, from the country, Transylvania, where it is found. ~. Graphic » /