536 ARSENIC. with silver-white cobalt-ore, iron-pyrites, grey copper Ore, brown blende, grey and red antimony-ores, quartz, hea vy-spar, and seldom cross-stone, zeolite, and mineral pitch. Geographic Situation. Europe. Tt occurs in veins at AndreaSberg in the Hartz , disseminated in dolomite 011 St Gothard; in beautiful crystals at Joachimsthal in Bohemia ; Ilraunds- dorf and Marienberg in Saxony ; and at Kapnic in Tran- sdvania; also along with volcanic substances at Vesu vius - , Solfatara, and I’uzzola. Asia.' In the island of Japan*, and in the Burmah Dominions f. 1 Feat Indies.—Island of Guadaloupe. America.—Neck, west territory of the United States Uses. ' It is used as a pigment. The Chinese cut it into ves sels and figures of different shapes. Observations. It is distinguished from red silver-ore by its inferior specific gravity, and its orange-coloured streak ; from red ore by its inteiior specific gravity ; from cinnabar, by the colour of its streak, that of cinnabar being scarlet- • rei. Ihe strong smell of garlic, and the white fumes which it emits b e f ore t j )e blowpipe, are characters which readily distinguish it from those minerals with which it might be confounded. Second * Thunlwrg's Travels, vol. iii. p. gQ3. + Ainslie’s Materia Mcdica, p. 53. i I Ol-erved fine specimens tff the American red orpimcnt in I)r .Mur ray’* Alineralogical Cabinet.