184 TLxtraclsfrom the Persian Work called [Maech, 



into: 1. The yellow. 2. The green. 3. The dust-coloured. 

 4. That spotted like a lizzard. 5. The whitish, spotted with gold 

 spots. They make of it chessmen, draughtsmen, handles for 

 knives, and the like. If you throw the green bezoar into the fire, 

 it turns black without being burned ; the inhabitants of Kermau 

 call it mncJiafi sch'eitan. It is the contrary with the animal 

 bezoar ; it is likewise sometimes green, sometimes yellow, some- 

 times of a dust colour, may be easily powdered, and assumes 

 a white colour when it is powdered on the stone. It is divided 

 into the cow bezoar (liakari), and into the sheep bezoar {schati). 

 The former is a soft yellow stone ; the latter, green and soft. 

 It is very often counterfeited ; the real may be distinguished 

 from the false, as the former will not take a mark of fire, as its 

 colour does not fall into a blueish, as it has no dots, and, when 

 rubbed, gives off a white colour. 



Sect. 2. Of the Mines of the Bezoar. — It is found on the 

 borders of India and China, as also between Mossul and Dsche- 

 sirei Ben Onier. It is said that the animal bezoar is produced 

 in China in the eyes of the btags, in which the exhalations of 

 serpents, which they have devoured, precipitated by the water, 

 are said to be condensed into bezoar. The sheep bezoar is said 

 to be produced in the stomachs of some sheep on the frontiers of 

 Persia. 



Chap. X. — Of the Cornelian {Akik). 



Sect. 1. Of the Properties of the Cornelian. — It has seven 

 kinds : 1. The hver-red. 2. The rose-red. 3. The yellow.* 

 4. The white. 5. The black. 6. The blueish. 7. That of twa 

 colours. Though a hard stone, it is much used for engraved 

 seals. 



Sect. 2. Of the Mines of the Cornelian. — It is found in Sanaa 

 and Aden, in Yemen, on the frontiers of India and Rum, and m 

 the neighbourhood of Bassra. 



Chap, XI. — Of precious Stones resend>ling the Jakut , viz. 1. The 

 Benefschf (Violet). 2. Bidschade (Garnet). 3. Budendsch. 



Sect. 1. Of the Properties of the Benefsch. — It is of four 

 different kinds: \. Madeni, of a pure bright transparent red 

 colour, quite similar to the red jakut ; so that if it is strung with 

 the jakut upon the same thread, the best judges can scarcely 

 distinguish them. 2. Ruthi, garlic. 3. Benejschsclii, blackish- 

 red. 4. Istasescht, of a light-yellow colour. All kinds of the 

 benefsch:[ have an affinity with the laal, but the benefsch inclines 

 more to b'ue than the laal. 



♦ Yellow is ralli'i! scid in IVisi.in ; ;inH here, and not in ihe city of Sardes, we 

 arc U> liiok for lln- uriijin of tlu- name of Ihesaiilonvx. 



+ l!oncr«ch, Ilidsciiadc, andMadcndsch, are certainly only dilTerent shades of 

 <hf samel, and may |ir(ihably I'e the vioU-t (almandin), the dark-red, and the 

 jcllr)\vi!,h-red oriental earnei ; namely, that of Ceylon and Syria. That their spe- 

 cific gravities are very (illferent is well known. 



I Uuviuii tranilatc's Benefsch by amethyst, as falsely as be dne^ jakut by hyacintb. 



