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" nature. We have altered fuch names only as were intolerably 

 *' ambiguous." 



Yet after this declaration we find the following new-coined 

 names : 



Telejia — for oriental rubies, fapphires and topazes. Thus fap- 

 phire is called blue telejia^ &c. 



Cymophane — for the chryfoberil of Werner. 



Amphihoh — for cryftallized hornblende. 



PyroKcne — alfo cryftallized hornblende ; at leaft I have reafon 

 to think fo, for of the eleven external characters of 

 both given by La Metherie, there is only one in 

 which they abfolutely diflfer, that is, the ekElrical. 



Staurotide — for ftaurolite, the name very properly impofed by 

 La Metherie inftead of the compound name it 

 bore before. 



Axinite — I believe to be only a variety of thumcrftein. 



ABinote — for adinolite, the termination lite moft properly de- 

 noting a ftone. 



Ihallite — for delphinite, the name already given it by Sauflure. 



Idocraje — feeras, as I conjedure (feeing no exadl account of it) 

 a variety of olivin. 



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