426 T H E A N T I L O P E S, 



ly animal which produces the Oriental bezoar* . 

 If we confult the otner naturalifts and travellers, 

 we mall be tempted to believe that all the ga- 

 zelles, wild and domestic goats, and even the 

 iheep, indifcriminately produce this ftone, the 

 formation of which depends more, perhaps, on 



the 



alveoli non fatis amplc&untur elabi pyloro pofle, et cum ex- 

 crementis excerni : Q«in formatos interdum dilfolvi rurfus, 

 praefertim longiori animalls inedia. Ciar. Jagerur mihi teftatus 

 eft fe, dum in regna Golkonda degeret, gazellas vivas recen- 

 ter captas manu fua perquifiviife, et contracto abdomine la- 

 pillos palpafie, in una geminos, in altera quinos vel fenos. 

 Has ille bellias pro contemplatione fua alere decreverat, ca- 

 mera hofpicii fui inclufas ; verum quod ab omni pabulo ab- 

 ftinerent, quafi perire quam faginari captivae mallent, maclari 

 eas juffit, inedia aliquot dierum macentes. Turn vero lapillos 

 ubi exempturus erat eorum ne veltigium amplius invenit, ex 

 quo illos a jejuno vifcere, vel alio quocumque modo, diflolutos 



credebat. Diifolutionem nullo poffe negotio fieri perfua- 



deor, fi quidem certum eft lapides in loco natali viventis bruti 

 dum latent nondum gaudere petrofa quam nobis exhibent, 

 duritie, fed molliores eife et quodammodo friabiles, inftar fere 

 vitelli ovi fervente aqua ad duritiem longius excocti. Hoc 

 propter recenter exfetfus ne improvide frangatur, vel attreclus 

 nitorem perdat, ab inventoribus confuevit ore recipi, et in eo 

 foveri ahquandiu dum induruerit, mox gofiypio involvi et af- 

 fervari. Aifervatio ni primis diebus caute fiant, periculum eft 

 ne adhuc cum infirmior, importuna contreclatione, rumpatur 

 aut labem recipiat. Generationem fieri conjiciunt cum re- 

 fmofa quaedam ex herbis depaftis concotfifque fubuantia ven- 

 triculorum latera occupat, quae, egeftiscibis, jejunoque vifcere 

 in pylorum conHuens, circa arreptum cakulum, lanam, pa- 

 leanive confiftat et coaguletur; ex primo circa materiam con- 

 tentam flamine effbrmandi lapidis figura pendet, &c. ; Idem, 

 f. 389. etfeq. 



* At Golconda, the King has great (lore of excellent be- 

 s*>ars. The mountains where the goats feed which produce 



thefe 



