AMBER.] NATURAL HISTORY. 7 



That other manner kind is called metal, and is found in 

 the earth, and is had in price. The third manner is made 

 of the three parts of gold, and of the fourth of silver. 

 And kind Electrum warneth of venom, for if one dip it 

 therein, it maketh a great chirking noise, and changeth oft 

 into divers colours as the rainbow, and that suddenly. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xvi. 38. 



THE Amber that is brought from these parts [Konigsberg 

 and Kurland] lies in great quantity scattered on the sand of 

 the sea, yet it is as safe as if it were in warehouses, since it 

 is death to take away the least piece thereof. At Dantzic 

 I did see two polished pieces thereof, which were esteemed at 

 a great price, one including a frog with each part clearly 

 to be seen, (for which the King of Poland then being there 

 offered five hundred dollars) the other including a newt, 

 but not so transparent as the former. 



Fynes Moryson, " Itinerary," pt. iii. bk. ii. ch. 3, p. 8 1. 



ANY kind of Amber being sodden in the grease of a 

 sow that gives suck to young pigs, is not only thereby 

 the clearer but also much the better. Lupton, bk. i. 25. 



OUR drink shall be prepared gold and Amber. 



Ben Jonson's "Fox," iii. 7. 



HE must drink his wine 



With three parts water, and have Amber in that too. 



Ben jfonson's " Magnetic Lady," ii;. 2. 



[Ambergris was a synonym for Amber, and was also used 

 in caudles, cullises, and comfits.] 



I WONDER most at Sophocles the tragical poet. For he 

 sticketh not to avouch, That beyond India Amber proceedeth 

 from the tears that fall from the eyes of the birds. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxxvii. ch. 2. 



AMBER is found as well in other places as in India. 

 Garcias thinks it to be the nature of the soil, as chalk, 

 bole-ammoniac, etc., and not the seed of the whale, or 

 issuing from some fountain in the sea. 



Purchai "Pilgrims," p. 508 (ed. 1616). 



