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tion and boiling, confequently by art, and a genu- 



ine groove- drop-vitriol is fomewhat rare. 



Neophyton, a virgin vitriol, which, and the tri- 

 ebites, are a grown or native fort, either in the 

 groove, or at the day, from pyrites opened by the. 

 air, without an actual fire. 



Dipbryges is a term of considerable ambiguity, 

 yet not without a meaning ; this, if not purely vi- 

 triolic, is yet either mixed therewith, or derived 

 From the matter whence vitriol itfelf generally de- 

 rives. From the etymon of the word, it mould 

 denote fomething roafted, which makes it probable 

 it fignifies a burnt or calcined, not a crude mineral, 

 or pyrites : or, the term may be derived from 

 Phrygia, and fo denote a pyrites dephryges y or a 

 fjrifyi vitriolic ore from Phrygia, 



Leucon, whence leucojon is derived, mould, 

 doubtlefs, denote a white vitriol. Mercati and 

 Salmafius hold the term to arife from a paffage in 

 Pliny mifunderftood, where, with Diofcorides, 

 Jhould be read AOrxQTON, lanceatum, and not 

 leucojon, to denote a vitriol fhot into needles or 

 lances, confequently of affinity with tricbites. 



There ftill remains another clafs of vitriols, 

 which though little or nothing relating to their ef- 

 fence, is yet adopted by many, efpecialiy druggifts, 

 dyers, &c. as the Cyprian, Hungarian, Roman, 

 Engliih, Saltzburg, Admond, Geyer, Goflar titf* 

 triols. But not to mention, that the vein* of vitriol- 

 ere may break fhort, and change, and a new fort of 

 vitriol may perhaps be procured, unknown before in 

 that particular place, the dealers in vitriol keep up 

 thefc diftinctions only from felfifh views. 



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