Excerpt from A System of Mineralogy, Vol. 1: In Which Minerals Are Arranged According to the Natural History Method The want of a true systematic arrangement of minerals, is still to be regretted; for although minerhlogists, from the days of theophrastus to the present time, have been engaged in this undertaking, their success has been very limited. In Botany and Zoology, regular methods have been proposed and followed in Mineralogy, however, the greater number of writers, excepting Lmrwus and Dr walker, have discarded the idea of a strict natural history arrangement, from its supposed insufficiency. This opinion, there can be no question, is ill-founded; for, it Will be found on a strict investigation, that minerals can be admirably arranged into Classes. 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.