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and fentence on their fide, yea and in wars, victorie over enemies, There isanother ofthatkind, G 
called by the Indians Henui, but the Greekes name it Xanthos: ofa whitith colour itis upona 
ground of a yellow tawnie. | hl 
I The ftones called Idzei-Da@tyli,be found in Candie: ofan yron colour they be,and refemble 
in forme the thumbe ofamans hand, As touching Iterias, there be fourekinds thereof, to wit, 
one like unto a pale coloured bird called the Lariot ,and thereforeis thought to be goodagainft 
¢ tividion,  thejaundife:a fecond there is of the fame name,but more enclining toa *{wert colour:thethird 
; refembleth a greene leafe,broaderthan the former,weighing little or nothing,and is befides full 
of paleandwan veins: the fourth is of thefame colour, but it hath blacke veins running tooand 
fro. The ftone called /upiters gem, is white, light, and tender. The ftone Indico taketh name of 
thofe nations from whence it commeth; the colour outwardly is fomewhat reddi(h, and ifitbe 
rubbed, therecommeth from ita certaine purple humor in manner of af{weat. There is another 
of that name, but itis white, and fheweth like unto duft or powder. The fame Indians haveano- 
ther gem called Ion, for that it refembleth the colour of the March violet but feldome fhall a 
man fec it with afrefh and gay blew indeed. . : 
L The ftone Lepiéetdes doth reprefent skales of fifhes in fundrie colours. Lesbiastaketh name 
ofthe [fle Lesbos the native place thereof: howbeitthey are found in India likewife. Leucoph- 
thalmus, is otherwife reddith ortawnie, howbeit inthat colour it carrieth the forme of an eye, 
both for white and blacke. Leucopetalos fheweth white in manner of {now, and yetthe fame is 
garnifhed with aluftre of gold. Libanochrusin colourrelembleth frankincenfe, but a liquor or 
moifture it yeeldeth anfwerable to honey. Limoniates feemeth to beall one with the Emeraud. [ 
Astouching the un€tuous {tone Liparis, I find this onely written of it, Thata ftinkeor perfume = 
thercof fetcheth foorth any venomous vermine. The ftone Lyfimachus is like unto the marble 
of Rhodes, and hath in it certaine veines or ftreakes of gold: This {tone muftbe polifhed upon 
marble :and when all the fuperfluities be fetched off, itis found to grow narrow pointwife. Leu- 
cochryfosfeemeth to be made of a Chryfolith, having white veins or ftreaks betweene. 
M A gemthereis called Memnonia, but I have not read the defcription thereof. AsforMedea, 
itisa blacke ftone, and foundit was firftby that famous 7edea of whome the Poets write fo 
many fables, yet certaine veins it hath of a golden colour: a kind of fweatiffueth fromit yellow _ 
as (affron,and in taft much refembling wine. Meconites doth reprefent expreflely,poppie heads. 
The ftone Mitrax we had from the Perfians,and the mountains along the red fea : many colours 
it hath,and againft the Sunit glittereth diverfly . Meroctes is greene like unto a leeke, and yerif 
you rubit, you fhall fee a humour come from itlike to milke. [he Indian ftone Morion(which is 
moft blacke and yer tranfparent) they call Pramnion:if itbe entermingled with the fierie red of 
the Carbuncle or Rubie, they call ir Alexandrinum like as the Cyprian, Morion,whichhatha —— 
(hew of the Sarda or Cornalline : found there bee of them in Tyrus and Galatia, Xenocrates re 
- porteth,that under the Alps alfo they are gathered. Thefe bee the gemsthatbe fitted for to en- 
grave the forme of any thing from a pattern, As for Myrthites,it hath the colour of myirhe and 
the forme of a fine pretious {tone it yeeldeth the fmell of afweet perfumeorointment,andbe- 
ingrubbed giveth a favour alfo of Nard. As touching Myrmecias,itis blacke, and hath certaine / 
rifings in it like to werts, Myrfinites, in colour refemblethhoney, and in odour rhe myrtle. Me- 
foleucos is a gem devided juft in the mids with a white line :contrariwife, Mefomelas,when thaes 
is a blacke line cutteth through any other colour in the middeft. 
NR Nafamonites is incolour like to bloud, howbeit certaine blacke veines it hath. Nebrites is a 
flone confecrat to god Bacchus : ittooke that name of the refemblance which it hath to thofe 
skins of deere that hee was wont to weare: there be others of the {ame kind, but blacke they are. 
The gem Nympharena keepeth thename of a citti¢ and nation in Perfia; and itrefembleth the 
teeth of a water-horfe. 
o __ Orcaisthe barbarous name of acertaine precious ftone,which is very pleafantuntotheeye: | 
___ wherein concurre together blacke,yellow,greene,and white, Ombria,whichfome call Notia, is \ 
*Astheham faid to fall from heaven in ftormes, fhowers of raine, and lightening, after the manner of other 
Pihake inthe fones, called thereupon Cerauniaand Brontia and the like effeéts are attributed toit,asbere- 
fach things, portedof Brontia: and thus much moreover, That fo long asit lieth uponthe hearth of analtar, 
whereof aly the * Jibaments will not burne thatbee offered thereupon. Orites isin forme roundasa globe: 
locketie,  fome call it Siderites,it will abide the fire and fecleno harme thereby. Oftracias or span Oe 3 
made 
