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SULPHUR.

COMBUSTIBLE BODIES, DESTITUTE OF METALLICPROPERTIES.

SULPHUR,

PARI XI.

SECT. I.

NATURAL HISTORY OF SULPHUR.

kjULPHUR which is also known by the name of brimstone, isthe only simple combustible substance which nature offers pureand in abundance. It was the first known of all. It is found inthe earth, and exists externally in depositions, in sublimed in-crustations, and on the surface of certain waters, principally nearburning volcanos. It is found combined with many metals. Itexists in vegetable substances, and has lately been discovered byMr. Carlisle in the albumen of eggs.*

Sulphur in the mineral kingdom is either in a loose powder, orcompact; and then either detached or in veins. It is found inthe greatest plenty in the neighbourhood of volcanos or pseudo-volcanos, whether modern or extinct as at Solfatara, See. andis deposited as a crust on stones contiguous to them, eithercrystallized or amorphous. It is frequently met with in mineral

Nicholson’s Journal, August, 1801, p. 178.