Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
About three years ago, a Danish vessel was brought into Leith as a prize. Among other articles, she contained a small collection of minerals, which were purchased by Thomas Allan, Esq; and Colonel Imrie, both members of this Society. The country from which these minerals had been brought was not known for certain; but as the collection abounded in Cryolite, it was conjectured, with very considerable probability, that they had been collected in Greenland.
page 371 note * Der Fruhling, Captain Jacob Ketelson, captured, on her passage from Iceland to Copenhagen.
page 383 note * The specimen of cerite which I analised, was so much mixed with action, that the statement of the results which I obtained cannot be of much importance. The specific gravity of the specimen was 4.149. I found it composed as follows: