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common and fantaftic names, merely to render 

 them unintelligible, and by means of quackery 

 to make a fcience of thefe matters. Thefe 

 colours are reprefented in drawings and en- 

 gravings by points and ftrokes in different direc- 

 tions, and fometimes crofting each other, as 

 well as by diftincl: figns and characters. There 

 are dill two other colours in blazonry, which arc 

 the natural colours of fruit, animals or plants, 

 and that of carnation or fiefh colour for feveral 

 parts of the human body. 



VII. The figures that ufually compofe coats 

 of arms are of three kinds, which are, natural, 

 artificial and heraldic. The firft confifts of re- 

 prefentations of all fort of animals, ftars, plants, 

 &c. The fecond of all that art has produced, 

 and that is of ufe in life, as habitable buildings, 

 bridges, columns, furniture, drels, inflruments, 

 tools, military weapons, &c. The heraldic are 

 all thofe that fill the fcutcheons at equal and 

 alternate diftances, of metal and colour, or that 

 have a particular fituation allotted to fome part 

 of the arms ; and are, Firft, all the divifions of the 

 Ihield, as parti per crofs, per chief, pale, fefs, 

 bend dexter, bend finifter, chevron, &c. Second, 

 the chief, the bend, the pale, the bar, the chev- 

 ron, the crofs, the faltier, the orle, &c. Third, 

 the faced, bended, barred, paled, traverfed, 

 checkered, lozenged, &c. Fourth, billets, frets, 

 guirons, lozenges, mafcles, ruftres, &c. It is 

 proper to obferve here, that all thefe terms, this 



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