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lian^ Jafper^ Bhodftone^ or Nephritic Stone^ 

 (^c. There are alfo forne Turkifh and 

 Perfian Daggers, fuch as it was formerly 

 cuftomary for them to wear at their 

 Girdles, and fome Knives with the Blades 

 inlaid with Gold. There is one in parti- 

 cular which has a Point of Gold, and is 

 by many credulous People thought to 

 have been tranfmuted by fome Alchymift 

 who poflefTed the much talked of Secret 

 of the Philofopher's Stone. 



In the other fmall Table in this Room 

 are preferved a great Number and Variety 

 of Cups, Dilhes, Boxes, ^r. made of Agate^ 

 Mocoe Stone^ Cornelian^ and Jafpers. They 

 differ much one from the other as well in 

 Form as Colour. 



There is very little more to be noticed 

 in this Part of the Colledion, if we except 

 a Set of Figures reprefenting Miners, in 

 the ordinary DreiTes they v/ear, in Bohe- 

 mia^ Saxony^ and other Parts of Germany, 

 With them are to be feen the Tools they 

 jfe in their Work and here is alfo a 

 H 2 View 



