Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 196
the regular octahedron aslice parallel to one of its faces. Frequently the growth of the crystal,under such circumstances, is much greaterin a horizontal direction than it is in thedirection perpendicular to the face onwhich it rests; and the crystal then pre-sents an appearance similar to Fig.… … Kg. 176.
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