Excerpt from An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy: Including Some Account of Mineral Elements and Constituents; Explanations of Terms in Common Use; Brief Accounts of Minerals, and of the Places and Circumstances in Which They Are Found The attempt to improve it, however, served to con vince me, that, if descriptions, of individual minerals, together with some account of the places and circum stances in which they arecommonly found, were collect ed with tolerable fidelity, from the best authorities, and comprized in a small volume, it would prove instructive to the young mineralogist more especially, if divested of technical and scientific terms, as much as the-nature of the subject will allow. This feeling was an incite ment to undertake the labour of selecting, which, at; best, is but an humble Occupation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.