Asbest, 445 Geognostic Situation. It is found in primitive rocks, and particularly in fcrpentine in which it occurs ufually in veins. Geographic Situations. It is found in Sweden, Bohemia, Silefia, Italy, Hungary, Siberia, France, Spain, and Scotland, as at Inveraray, Ponfoy, and ifle of Unfl one of the Shet- lands *. Ufes. From its flexibility, and its refilling the effects of fire, it is faid to have been, by the ancients, wove into a kind of cloth, in which they wrapped the bodies °t' perfons of diftinaion before they were placed on *ke funeral pile, that their alhes might be colleaed free from admixture; it was alfo ufed for incom- kuftible wicks, but it is now conlidered only as an °hjea of curiofity. * Mineralogy of the Scottilh ifie». THIRD