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STRONTIANE GENUS. poifonous properties with Witherite. It difolves in acids with eflervefcence. If we dip a piece of paper into a folution of nitrate of flrontian and allow it to dry and then inflame it, it burns with a very beauti ful carmine red colour. Brochant. Constituent Parts. Strontiane 6i,2I 6 9>5 , 62,0 Carbonic acid 30,20 30,0 3°»° Water 8,50 . °>5 8,0 100,0 100,0 100,0 According to Hope, Klaproth, Pelletier. Geognostic and Geographic Situations; It has been hitherto found only at Strontian in Argylelhire, where it occurs along with lead glance, heavy fpar, calc fpar, and iron pyrites, in a vein that traverfes gneifs *. . * The kind of rock may ftill remain doubtful, as the authority of the foreign mineralogift who firft announced it is not of the higheft kind. Obfervations- *