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Ikoma-yama, Yamashiro Kitsube-no-yama, Sanaki, Kii, Idzumi.
Var. C is a yellow, ochry clay-iron-stone, very soft and not used for melting. It has a reputation as a medicine against head-ache, hears the names Ran-seki-ō, Syn. Manju-ishi, Dango-ishi, Tsuchi-dango, Dango-wa and is found in Buzen Nakatsu, Awa, Higami-gun, Suwo, Tö, Oshu Tsugaru, Hoki, Noto, Kai Arayi-yama.
6.—Stalactitic Spathic iron-ore (Stalactitischer Sphaerosiderit) is, as far as we know, rare in Japan and seems to be found only in Yamashiro Inare-yama and Yamato-yama. It forms small stalactitic masses of a yellow-brown colour, and bears the Japanese names: Do-inketsu Syn. Do-niu, Kitsune-no-ko-makura (Foxe-pillow), Kuda-ishi (stick-stone), Kitsune-no-rosoku (Foxes candle) and is a much valued old Chinese medicine. It is not used for melting iron. It seems to me that ordinary Spathic iron ore (Spatheisenstein) is alae very rare in Japan, because I did not meet with samples and found no description of this ore in the above named Japanese works.
7.—Iron pyrites. All three varieties, the cubical, dodekahedral and nodular are duly represented in Japan. The quantity of ordinary, dodekahedral pyrites, as well as of copper pyrites, is enormous in the country. There is scarcely any place where iron pyrites is wanting. It does not serve for melting iron, but finds a place in every drug-shop as a Chinese remedy.
A.—Cubical Pyrites occurs in fine crystallized specimens of C. 1 Cub. centin. and is called Ji-nen-do and Ji-zen-do (Natural metal) Syn. Kin-san-reki-shi, Kin-riki-shi, San-sari. It is found in Shinano Take-ishi-mura, Fuji-yama, Suwo Yamaguchi, Bingo Yamaken-gun, Dewa, Satsuma, Kii Kumano, Idzu Nikkai.
B.—Dodekahedral Pyrites is kept by the Japanese for a wholly different use to the former. They distinguish, according to the colour, two kinds, namely Kin-ge-seki, Syn. Ho-kin-ge, Kana-Zako=pyrites with a yellow (gold) colour and Gin-ge-seki, Syn. Ho-gin-ge, Do-gin,
