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THE GEOLOGIST. 
" Pavo lapidi a natura inscriptus ; Plinius, part i. p. 13. 
" Galhis in marmore ; Kircher, Mund. Subter. torn. ii. p 39. 
Gallina in rene lapidis fissilis Ilmenauiensis ; Mylius, loc. cit. part i. 
p. 47 ; item part ii. p. 73, fig. n. 1. 
" Aves infissili lapide Bottendorffiensi; Mylius, loc. cit. parti. p. 13. Aves 
et floresTarii generis in marmore Eichstadiensi ; vide Seyfried, 'Medullam 
Mirabilium JN'aturse,' p. 437. 
" A vicidce iigiiYse silex, sive pyromaclius vulgaris Croppensis insignitus 
forsan Geranites Plinii est ; Excellent. Stobaeus in Hist. IS^atur. de Den- 
dritis, p. 34, n. 20, t. ii. fig. 5. 
" Caput tilulcs in marmore Dietzensi; celeberr. D. Bruckm. Magn. Dei, 
part ii. p. 107, t. 27, fig. 2. 
" Caput gallopctvi cum parte colli in pyrita ; venerand. Lesser, in Litbo- 
tbeol. p. 406, fig. n. 1. et 2." 
Bruckmann (1749), in bis ' Epistolarum Itinerarium,'* copies Eit- 
ter's (see a?ite, page 449) plates and descriptions of tbe dendritic 
stones, tbe bird-fisfures on wbieb are given in our PI. XXIII. and 
PI. IV. in Vol. YII. Tbe descriptions are printed above. 
Tab. XXII. p. 343. *' Porro ex ejusdem Comment. II. de Zoolitbis- 
Dendroidis ofiero : Eig. I. Lapidem quadratum, coloris lueido-esesii, 
exbibentem arbusculas et fruticeta coloris nigerrimi, intermixtis nonnullis 
ramulis coloris puuicei." 
At anotber part of bis work be describes two dendritio stones, 
of wbicb be gives elaborate copper-plate engravings. One is figured 
in our PI. XXIII. Fig. 3, and the other part of an extensive land- 
scape, in wbicb there is a pig as big as a bouse or a bouse as small as 
a pig, whichever tbe reader or spectator like, and flying away from 
a row of bushes, what Ritter describes, as "a bird, with a long 
tail, the bead adorned with long and erected feathers, tbe wings dis- 
played, flying through tbe 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. AYe give a fac- 
simile (PI. XXIY. Eig. 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. 
*' Numer. III. Lapis babet figuram geometricam nempe trapezoidalem, 
longus est ipsum pedem, latus tres pollices, crassus semipollicem ; segmen- 
tum hoc est lapidis, qui crassitudine ipsam excedebat palmam ; ambo latera 
sunt optime Isevigata et polita, etiam subtili etperlucente vernice obducta, 
bine multo elegantius et vividius sistuntur omnia ; natural! magnitudine 
hunc, et jam descriptos lapides seri cselari curaviraus, fruticeta, arbusculas, 
imagines reliquse elegantissime et pleuissime sunt expressae, nigerrimi 
coloris ; sed quod nomen buic lapidi inponamus, ipsi lisesitamus, forsan 
cum B. Baiero ilium nominare possimus arcJiipelagitem. cujus quidem 
description! non absimilis,t concedet tamen benevolus lector et spectator 
* " Francisci Ernesti Bruckmanxi Phil, et ^led. Doct. Acad. Csesar. Leopoldino- 
Carolinfe Nat. Car. ut. et Societ. Eegio-Prussicse Scientiarum Merabri, juxta ae Asses- 
soris Colleg. Medici lUusti'. Bmnsvic. et Poliatri "WolfFenbiittelensis. Centuria Secunda 
Epistolarum Itinerarum accedit Museum Closterianum. Wolffeubuttelse^MDCCXLix." 
t In Sciagraphia Musei sui et Supplementis Oryctogr. Noricse, p. 49. 
