Crimfen : which being chaufedinthe Sun,or otherwife fet in a heat by rubbing withthe fingers, G 
will draw unto them chaffe,ftrawes, flireads, and leaves of paper. The common Grenatalfo of 
Carchedon or Carthage, is faidto doe as much, although it be infetiour in price to the former, 
Thefe Grenats are found upon the hillsamong the Nalamons,and as theinhabitant are of opi- 
nion,are engendred by means ofa cettaine divine dew or heavenly fhowre; found they are twia- 7 : 
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kling againft the moon-lightsand efpecially when thee is in the full. In times paft,all che trafficke 
of the Grenats was at Carchage,whereupon they tooke the nameof Catchedon, But 4rchelaws 
faith that there be of them in Agyptalfo about the cittie Thebes; howbeie; fuch are brittle, full 
of veins, and like untoacole going out and readie to die, I find; that drinking cups have beene 
made of this ftone, as alfo of the former, called Eychnites.Generally,all Rubies be verie hard for 
to becut; and thisill qualitie they have, That they never doe fealecleane, but ordinarilyplucké Hf 
fome ofthe wax away with the fignet: contrariwife, the Cornalline or Sarda, figneth verie faire 
without any of the wax flicking toit: this Sarda giveth part of the name to-the| Sardonyx :the 
4 ce gem itis felfeis verie common, found firft about *Sardis;but in truth,the principal is that which 
" theoame, and COmMmeth from about Babylonia, out of certaine quarries of ftone, where it was fonnd flicking 
not ofSardi- within another {tone in manner of the heart. Afterthis manner; it is {aid, thatthe Perfians had 
Be eal *° {ometime minerall Cornallines, but the mine nowdoth fade : howbeit,there be of theminmany 
‘other places befides, to wit, in Paros and Affos; The Indiansfend untowsthree feverall kinds, 
to.wit, the red, the fattie (called thereupon Demium) and the thitd which ordinarily have a 
ground of filver-foile laid under themto givealuftre. The Indian Sardes or Cotnallines are 
tran{parent and carrie a through-light with them : the Arabian be more thicke: therebefound J _ 
of them alfoabout Zgypt, but they have commonly aground of gold-foile, Thefe gemslike- 
wife are diftinguifhed by the fex, for the male have a more bright and orient luftre; the female 
are notforefplendent,but thine as it were through a grofle and fattie matter. In old time, there 
was not apretious (tonein greater requeft, chan the Cornalline:and in truth, Wenander and 
* udesydo i) = Philemon have named this {tone in their * Comcedies, fora brave.and proud gem :neithercan 
ee ant we find a pretious ftone thatmaintaineth the luftre longer than it, againft any humour wherein it 
in Pedo:Spea- is drenched; and yet oile is more contratie unto it than any other liquor. foconclude,thofethat 
king of the E- be of che colour of honey, are rejected for nought; howbeit, ifthey refemble the colour of car- 
mieraud and ; 
Cornaliiiese then pots, they be worfe than thofe. 
Cuav. vite no bs al: 
P& Of the* Topaze, and the fundrie kinds of it. Of *Callais : and of other 
* Some take it . 
~ greene pretiows flones not tran{parent, : 
for our Chry- t 
folith. eth ; ; 
* Icis chought He Topaze or Chiyfolith, hath a fingular greene colout by it felfe,for which itis efteemed 
ee: ‘pa verie rich; and when it was firft found, it furpaffed all others in price: they were difcovered 
* firft in an Ifle of Arabiacalled Chitis, wherein certaine rovers( Troglodyces)beeing newly 
landed, after they had ben driven thither by tempeft and urged with famine, began to feed upon 
hearbs and dig for roots, and by that means met with the Lopaze ftone: This is the opinion of 
Archelaus, But K. Juba reporteth, that there is an Ifland within the red fea called Topazas,diftant 
from thecontinent joo ftadia, the which is oftentimes fo miftie, that failers have much .adoe to 
find it, whereupon it rooke that name : for in the Troglodytes language (faith he) Topazinis as 
much to fay, as tofearch or {eeke for athing, Itisfaid,thae the firft that cookea liking untothe 
ftone, was queene Berenice the mother of Ptolome the fecond, and that by the meanes of Pbile= 
mon (lieutenant generalluntoher fonnein thofe countries) who prefented one of themto the 
faid queene. Of which Chryfolite, Psolomaus PhiladelphusK. of Aigypt,caufed the ftatue of his 
wife 47 fincé tobe made, foure cubits long; andin the honour of the {aid.queene his wife,dedica- 
ted itin a chappell named the Golden temples The moderne writers doe report, that there be 
found of thefe Chryfolits about A labaftrum a towne in Thebais,a province in high Agypt;and 
two kinds they make thereof, to wit, Prafoides, and Chryfopteros; which latter commeth neare 
unto the golden Berill called Ghryfopraffon,for that the colour therof refembleth fully the juice 
of Porret and of all pretious ftones it is the largeft :this propertie it Hathabove all other gems, 
That only it commeth under the file to be polifhed for noble men ; whereasall other be fcoured 
_ bythe grindftones comming out of Naxos :this ftone will weare with ufage. ee : 
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