It  is  also  found  various  places  along  the  coast  of  the  North  Sea  in  Courland
and  Livonia,  Russia ;  Pomerania,  Germany.  It  is  reported  as  occurring  also
in  Roumania  ;  Spain  ;  at  Lemberg,  Galicia ;  Catania,  Sicily ;  Santa  Domingo  ;
Kreischerville,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. ;  Eagle  Pass  and  on  the  Terlingua  Creek,
Texas ;  near  Trenton  and  Camden,  N.  J.
Amber  is  used  in  the  manufacture  of  stems  for  pipes  and  cigar  holders,
small  jewelry,  various  ornaments,  varnish,  and  as  a  source  of  succinic  acid.
Chips  are  often  pressed  together  and  sold  under  the  name  of  ambroid.
BURMITE  is  very  similar  to  amber  but  does  not  contain  succinic  acid.  It  occurs
in  considerabel  quantities  in  Burma.
A  comparatively  large  number  of  fossil  resins  are  in  many  respects  similar  to
amber,  but  differ  from  it  principally  by  the  entire  absence  or  the  presence  of  but  ver>
small  amounts  of  succinic  acid.  They  occur  generally  in  coal  or  lignite,  more  rarely
in  sandstone,  shale,  or  clay.  The  following  are  only  a  few  of  such  substances.  Co-
palite  occurs  in  the  blue  clay  of  High  Gate,  near  London ;  Retinite  at  Halle,  Ger-
many, and  Bovey  Trace},  Dovenshire,  England;  Tasmanite  in  Tasmania;  Waldiowite
in  Moravia;  Cedarite  in  Canada;  and  Gedanite  in  the  vicinity  of  Konigsberg,  Germany.
COALS.
