43© THEANTILOPES, 



no means well founded. We have feen fevc~ 

 ral of thefe concretions, which are called ape 

 bezoars. But they are totally different from the 

 oriental bezoar, which unqueftionably proceeds 

 from a ruminating animal, and is eaiily diftin- 

 guifhed, by its form and fubftance, from all the 

 other bezoars. Its common colour is a greenifh 

 olive, and browniih within. The colour of 

 what is called the occidental bezoai\ is a faint 

 yellow, more or lefs dirty. The fubftance of 

 the former is more tender and porous, and 

 that of the latter, harder, drier, and more pe^ 

 trified. Befides, as prodigious quantities of the 

 oriental bezoar were confumed during the lad 

 two or three centuries, being ufed, both in 

 Europe and Afia, in all cafes where our phyfi- 



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cruftae inftar, magis magifque au&a in lapidem durefcit. Pro 

 varietate victus, quo utuntur animalia, ipfae quoque lamellae 

 variant, fucceffive libi rautuo adpofitae, feniimque grande* 

 fcentes. Fracto hae facile ieparantur, et per integrum faepe 

 ftatum ita a fe mutuo fuccedunt, ut decorticatum relinquant 

 lapidem, laevi iterum et quai' expolita luperficie coni'picuum. 

 Lapides bezoard, illis e Iocis Indiae Orientalis venientes quibus 

 cum Britannis commercium intercedit, pro parte minuti iunt, 

 et rotundi, lllicumque quandam fpeciem in centro gerunt. 

 Alii vero teneriores, et oblongi, iutus continent ibaminula, 

 nucleos daclylorum, femina peponum, et ejufmodi, quibu:; 

 fimplex faltem, aut geminuni veii lapidis (Iratum, latis tenue, 

 circumpolitum eft. Unde in his ultra dimidiam partem reji- 

 culi datur : Et nobis quidem lii videntur veri eiFe limiarunl 

 lapides, utpote maturius ab hifce animantibus per anum ex- 

 creti, quam ut majorem inmolem potuerint excrefcerej Scbaj 

 vol. 2. p. 130. 



