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A and partly reddifh, AfyGosbeeing once heatat the fire, will continue afevennight after hot : 
blackeitis and ponderous, having certaine veins that devide it:it is thought to be good againft 
- cold. Astouching Zegyptilla, Zacchus taketh itfor a white ftone, with a veine partly of a Sard or 
Cornalline,and partly blacke,paffing through it overthwart :howbeit the common fort take A- 
gyptilla to be blew, witha blacke mote in the bottome. : | | 
As fortheftone Balanites,there be twokinds thereof; to wit, of agreenithcolour,andrefem- B 
bling Corinth braffe: the former commeth from Coptos, the other out of the region Troglo- 
dytica;and they have a firie veine cutting them juft in the mids. The fame C optos{endeth other 
ftones unto us befides, to wit, thofe which be called Batrachitz ; the one like in colour to a frog, 
a fecond unto* yvorie, the thirdis of ablackith red. * Baptes, howfoever otherwife it be foft and * fae :fome 
B tender, yet anexcellent odour ithath. The {tone called Beluseye is white, and hath within ita ;“Phon0. 
black apple,the mids wherof a man thall fee to glitter like gold: this {tone for the fingular beau- *#. Ambre 
tie that it hath, is dedicated to Be/zs the moft {acted god of the A fiyrians. There is another ftone <2" wh 
named Belus, growing (as Democritus faith )about Arbelz to the bignefle of a wall-nut in man- Orchanes, 
ner and forme of glafle. As for Baroptenus or Baroptis, it is blacke,enterlaced as it were with cer- 
taine knots,both white and alfo of a fanguine red, after a ftraunge and wonderfull manner. Bo- 
trytes isfound fometime black, otherwhiles red, and like itis unto aclufter of grapes when it be- 
ginneth firft to knit. As for it which is more like unto the hair of women, Zeroaftres calleth it*Bo- * A kind of 
firychites. *Bucardia refembleth an ox-heart,and is to be fourid only about Babylon. Brontiais siume de 
fhaped in manner of a Tortoife head: it falleth witha cracke of thunder (as it is thought) from plume. 
c_ heaven ;and ifweewillbelecveit, quencheth the fire of lightning. Bol are found after a great Gas 
ftorme or tempeft, refembling a clod. bia } 
Cadmitis were the verie fame which they call Oftracitis, but that othetwhiles itis compafled 
about with certain blew bates Callais commeth very neareuntothe Sapphir,but that it is whi- 
ter,and refembleth rather the water of the fea aboutthe fhore.Capnites(asfome thinke)is akind 
of ftone by itfelfe,befet with many wreaths, and thofe feeming to {moke, as Ihave faid alreadie 
in due place: the naturall place of itis Cappadocia and Phrygia: in fome fortit is like yvorie.As 
touching Callainz,it iscommonly faid,that they be foundalwaiesmany joyned togither.Cato- 
chites is aftone properunto the Ifland Corfica:in bignefle it exceedeth ordinarie pretious 
ftones:awonderfull ftone,ifall be true that is reported thereof,and namely, That ifa man lay his 
D hand thereupon, it will holditfaftimmanner of a glewie gum.‘Catopyrites groweth in Cappa- 
docia.Gepites or Cepocapites, isa whiteftone, and the veins therein feeme to meet togither in 
knots; and fo white and cleare withall,that it may ferveas amirrour to {hew ones face.Ceramites _ 
in colour refembleth arearthen pot. As for Cindi, they be found in the braine of a fifh na- 
med Cinzdus: white they be and of a long fafhion,and of a wonderfull nature,ifwe may beleeve 
that whichis reported. of the eventwhich they fignifie; andnamely, that according asthey bee x. 
cleareortroubled in colour, they doe prefage either ftorms or calme at fea, Cerites is like unto 
wax; and Circos,untowreaths or circles.Corfoides,is made in maner ofa gray peruke of haire: 
Corallo-achates, unto acorall fet witlygold {pots: Corallis, to vermillon, and is engendred in 
Indiaand Syene, Crateriteshath a colour betweene the Chryfolith and the bafe gold Klectrum, 
E. of anexceeding hard fubftance.Crocallis doth reprefenta cherrie. C yffites is engendred about’ 
Coptos,andis of a white color: itfeemeth as it were to be with child, for fomething ftirreth and 
rattlethwithin thebellieif it be fhaken, Calcophonos is a blacke ftone; if a man ftrike uponit, 
hefhalbperceive it toring like a peece of braffe: and the magicians would perfuade thofe that 
playin Tragoediestocarrie it about them continually. As forthe ftone Chelidonia, there bee 
two fortsof it:in colourthey do bothrefemble the Swallow, and of one fide which is purple,you 
thall feeblacke {pots intermingled hereand there among. Chelonia is no more but the verie eie 
of an Indian. Tortoife: of amoft ftraunge nature by the magicians faying, and working great 
woonders, but they will lye moft monftroufly; for they would promife and aflure us, That after 
__ one hath well rinfed or wafhed his mouth with honeyjand then lay it upon the tongue, hee fhall 
E _ prefentlyhave the {pirit of prophefie,and be able to foretell future things all a day long, cither in 
thefullorchaunge of the moone;but ifthis bee practifed in the wane of the moone, hee fhall 
have this giftbut onely before the Sun-rifing: upon other daies, namely while the moone is 
croiffant, from fix ofthe clocke orfun-rifing fix houres after. Moreover, there be certaine {tones 
called Chelonitides,becaule they belike unto Toxgoifes, by iar magicians would feeme 
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