A NEW CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA, COMPREHENDING A COMPLETE SERIES OF Essays, Treatises, and Systems, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED; WITH A GENERAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, AND WORDS: THE WHOLE PRESENTING A DISTINCT SURVEY OF Human Genius, Learning, and Industry. ILLUSTRATED WITH ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS; THOSE ON NATURAL HISTORY BEING FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY EDWARDS AND BY JOHN MASON GOOD, ESQ. F.R.S. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA; OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D. OF THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH, AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LITERARY AND MR. NEWTON BOSWORTH, OF CAMBRIDGE; ASSISTED BY OTHER GENTLEMEN OF EMINENCE, IN DIFFERENT LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. WALKER; SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, 1819. PANTOLOGIA. FLU which it spontaneously falls, resembling very minute granulations: denominated fluor mineral, or granular. Found in Britain, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and Germany, white, smokecolour, green, violet, purple, rosy, honey-colour, or varied with spots, blotches, or veins, semi-pellucid, or transparent, breaking into three, rarely four-sided fragments, takes a fine polish, and is manufactured into various vases and figures. T 4. F. tabularis. In rhombic oblong tables. Found in Switzerland, Alsace, and Saxony. 5. F. cubicus. Fluat of lime. Cubic fluor. Hardish, shining, smooth, lamellar, brittle, breaking into pyramidal fragments, cubic.. Many varieties, cubes perfect; or imperfect; angles, or margins, or both truncate; margins terminating in a point, or in a three-sided pyramid. Found in Derbyshire and Northumberland, Spain, France, Saxony, Germany, &c. of the same variety of colours as F. spatosus; most frequently pellucid, rarely opake; the crystals solid or hollow, or containing a small drop of water, or some fossil, and placed in a decussate manner, laterally or irregular, or aggregate in a kidney or imperfectly globular |