100 DOMAIN ix. ANOMALOUS. 



nine specimens of flint, chiefly yellow or spotted, 

 which must greatly resemble to those in the 

 Kollanite; and which, as he observes, approach 

 exceedingly near to chalcedony. Many may 

 also be said to be agatised ; being disposed, like 

 agate, in concentric lines of different tints and 

 colours. It is indispensable that a new term be 

 applied to this intermediate substance; and the 

 ciidite. Greek name of Chalite is proposed, from the 

 word for flint, but which has not yet appeared in 

 mineralogy*. 



To arrange these pebbles with common flints, 

 would only occasion a confusion of ideas. They 

 belong to an intermediate substance, between 

 flint and agate, which indeed Haiiy has ar- 

 ranged together, under the name of Quartz 

 agate. That flint which is found near Paris, 

 with the layers and beauty of an onyx, and that 

 called menilite, might also be classed as different 

 structures of this nobler kind of flint; which, as 

 .silex is from the Latin, might be sought, as before 

 stated, in a higher source, the Greek, and de- 

 nominated chalite. Like chalcedony or agate, 



* XaAiJ. The Hebrew, it is said, is chalamish, Readers 

 tersed in that language, may cnosult Deut. vin. 15. Ps. cxiv. 3. 

 Is. v. 28. L. 7. Ezek. HI. 9. 



