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placing one here, much more corred than any 
he will find elfewhere. 
As I walked along the beach, I found among 
the pebbles, with which the fand was covered, 
agates marked with arborizations, onyxes, 
cryftals of pfeudo-amethyft, and a number of 
pieces of quartz with fingular marks. 
I alfo faw one extraordinary ftone, to which 
I cannot yet give a name. It is as large as a 
nutmeg, has a varying fplendour like the opal 
Great's eye,but is of a browner hue, with a gold- 
coloured belt. It ftrikes fire with fteel. Since 
my return to Europe, I have fought for fuch in 
vain in cabinets and among traders, but I have 
been able no where to meet with one. Neither 
the naturalift nor the jeweller knows it. This 
ftone at prefent is in Holland, in the poiTeffion 
of one of my friends, Raye de Breukelward, 
and coaftitutes a part of his valuable col- 
ledion. 
There were alfo on the fhore little banks of 
heavy black fand, confifting of fragments of 
cryftals. Though the fmallnefs of the fand 
prevented me from counting the fides of the 
cryftals, I v/as inclined to take them for gar? 
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