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THE GEOLOGIST. 



" Pavo lapidi a natura inscriptus ; Plinius, part i. p. 13. 



" Gallus in marcnore ; Kircher, Mund. Subter. torn. ii. p 39. 



" Gallina in rene lapidis fissilis Ilmenaniensis ; Mylius, loc. cit. part i. 

 p. 47 ; item part ii. p. 73, fig. n. 1. 



" Aves in fissili lapide Bottendorffiensi; Mylius, loc. cit. parti. p. 13. Aves 

 et flores varii generis in marmore Eiclistadiensi ; vide Seyfried, 'Medullam 

 Mirabilium Naturae,' p. 437. 



" Avicitlce figurse silex, sive pyromachus vulgaris Croppensis insignitus 

 forsan Geranites Plinii est ; Excellent. Stobaeus in Hist. Natur. de Den- 

 drites, p. 34, n. 20, t. ii. fig. 5. 



" Caput ululee in marmore Dietzensi ; celeberr. D. Bruckm. Magn. Dei, 

 part ii. p. 107, t. 27, fig. 2. 



" Caput gallopavi cum parte colli in pyrita ; venerand. Lesser, in Litho- 

 tlieol. p. 406, fig. n. 1. et 2." 



"Bruckmann (1749), in his ■ Epistolarum Itinerarium,'* copies Eit- 

 ter's (see ante, page 449) plates and descriptions of the dendritic 

 stones, the bird-figures on which are given in our PL XXIII. and 

 PI. IV. in Vol. VII. The descriptions are printed above. 



Tab. XXII. p. 343. " Porro ex ejusdem Comment. II. de Zoolitkis- 

 Dendroidis offero : Fig. 1. Lapidem quadratum, coloris lucido-csesii, 

 exhibentem arbusculas et fruticeta coloris nigerrimi, intermixtis nonnullis 

 ramulis coloris punicei." 



At another part of his work he describes two dendritic stones, 

 of which he gives elaborate copper-plate engravings. One is figured 

 in our PI. XXIII. Fig. 3, and the other part of an extensive land- 

 scape, in which there is a pig as big as a house or a house as small as 

 a pig, whichever the reader or spectator like, and flying away from 

 a row of bushes, what Hitter describes, as "a bird, with a long 

 tail, the head adorned with long and erected feathers, the wings dis- 

 played, flying through the air, expressed distinctly by nature;" 

 but which looks as much like an insect as a bird, and really, to our 

 eyes, has as little resemblance to one as the other. We give a fac- 

 simile (PI. XXIV. Fig. 1 ) of this object, as evidence of the imagina- 

 tive faculties of a naturalist a hundred and fifty years ago ; and add 

 also the original passage describing the specimens. 



" Xumer. III. Lapis habet figuram geometricam nempe trapezoidalem, 

 longus est ipsum pedem, latus tres pollices, crassus semipollicem ; segmen- 

 tum hoc est lapidis, qui crassitudine ipsam excedebat palinam ; ambo 1 at era 

 sunt optime laevigata et polita. etiarn subtili etperlucente vernice obducta, 

 hinc multo elegantius et vividius sistuntur omnia ; naturali magnitudine 

 hunc, et jam descriptos lapides eeri cselari curavimus, fruticeta, arbusculae, 

 imagines reliquse elegantissime et plenissime sunt expressae, nigerrimi 

 coloris ; sed quod nomen kuic lapidi inponamus, ipsi luesitamus, forsan 

 cum B. Baiero ilium nominare possimus arelripelagitem, cujus quidem 

 descriptioni non absimilis,f concedet tamen benevolus lector et spectator 



* " Francisci Ernesti Bruckmanni Phil, et ]\Ied. Doct. Acad. Caesar. Leopoldmo- 

 Carolinpe Nat. Ciu\ ut. et Societ. Eegio-Prussicae Scientiarum Merabri, juxta ac Asses- 

 soris Colleg. Medici Illustr. Brunsvic. et Poliatri Wolffenbuttelensis. Centuria Secuuda 

 Epistolarum Itiuerarum accedit Museum Closteriauum. \Yolftenbuttela? 3 M:DCCXLix." 



f Iu Sciagraphia Musci sui et Supplementis Oryctogr. Norica3, p. 49. 



