Dßinclive Charaden, 35 Of the Fibrcus FraBure. This prefents either lines or threads, fome fo fine as to be fcarcely perceptible, and fome groffer or coarfer. Thefe are ßraight or curved, parallel or diverging, or ßellated, that is, diverging like f he rays of a dar from one common center, or hundled together, or interlaced. Of the Striated Frafture. The ßriated frafture confifts of long narrow fieparable parts, laid an or beßde each otlier; they have proportionably more length than breadth, and are thicker at one end than at the other; however they frequently differ in breadth, a nd hence they are divided into fine, or narrow, or broad. Their direftion is alfo either ßraight or curved, parallel or diverging, or ßellated, or bündled, or interlaced. Of the Foliated Fradure. This difcovers plates nearly as broad as long, With polifhed fhining furfaces, and commonly even fpecular; fome have large, fome exceeding minute faccttes, fome ßraight, fome curved, fome undulating or wavy, fome parallel, fome diverging: "hen fmall and irregularly placed, they are often callcd fcales. Minerals that confift of grains, and at e at the fame time foliated, are called granu- D 2 larly