Part IV. ^th Earth, 



of which fort likewife are the Gemms 

 or Stones that are here fhot into Cubes, 

 into Pyramidal Forms, or into angula-. 

 ted Columns^ confifting of fix Sides^ 

 and mucronated or terminating in a 

 Point : being either opake, or pellucid : 

 or partly pellucid, and partly opake, 

 and coloured, black, white, grey, red, 

 purple, blue, yellow, or green e.g. 

 Cryjla/I , the Pfeudo-^^damantes , the 

 Corm(b'Sto^es^ the Briftow-Stones^ Cry-^ 

 fial/ized Sparrs^ the his^ the Amethjfl^ 

 the Saphire^ the Topaz^ the Emerau/d^ 

 and feveral others. 



My Bufinefs here is to enquire into 

 the Origin and Production of thele 

 Metallick and Mineral Bodies : to en- 

 quire how they came into this condi- 

 tion, and attained thefe Figures. And 

 as my Obfervations have been the light 

 whereby I have hitherto fteered my 

 Courft, fd I here betake my felf unto 

 them again ; and 'tis from them that I 

 prove^ 



That as the more grofs and maflive 

 parts the Terreftrial Globe : the 

 Strata of Stone, Marble, Earth, and 

 the reft, owe their prelent Frame and 

 Order to the Deluge : fo likewife do 

 Metalls and Minerals too ; the far 



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