2 86 Of Gems. 
ART 
Two little white or pale SAPHIRES, polifh'd into a flat 
oval Figure. By fome called The Female: and fo the 
paler kinds of other Gems. The beft, grow in Bifnagar, 
Zeilan^nd other parts of the £^ W/><r,efpecially in Pegu. 
The meaner, in Bohemia, and other adjacent places. They 
are cut or fafhiond with Emery and Triply 3 and en- 
graven with Diamond-Duft, as other harder Gems. Being 
(a) Boet. de burnt, they imitate a Diamond, as doth the Amethyft. (a) 
Gem.&L. ^ nC | jg s u ft um anc j G/tf/s melted together, imitate a 6V- 
Aldrov. phire. (b) 
^Lib.?. 11, Tne Sa pMrt> fidtfa £oe//#5, (0 being applied to any 
c. 43. bruifed part, prohibits the Inflammation of it, in a miracu- 
(d) ibid. l° us nianner.See alfo the Salt and Titzclure (d) of it defcribed 
and commended by the fame Author. 
The GRANATE, qu. Ingranate, or Ingraind. And there- 
fore by the French called VERMEILLE : and the Matrix, 
by Mofcardo, Mi?iera de Ingranata. The deepeft, well com- 
pared by Imperatus to the Juyce of a ripe Mulberry. Here 
are of feveral fizes. 
A BOHEMICK GRANATE, as big as a Nutmeg. With 
feveral more of the fame fize, or near it. 
Some other Large GRANATES, polifli'd with Rhombs. 
But thefe are cloudy. 
A Bag of Leffer GRANATES, of feveral fizes from a 
Peafe to a Muftard-Seed. 
A BED of GRANATES from the Weft-Indies. Given 
by the Honourable Rob. Boyle Efq$. Moft of them as big 
as a large Peafe, beded in a Stone which is friable, and eafily 
rub'd to a redifh and glittering powder 5 in fome places a 
little black,and growing with crofs Flakes. It feemeth,from 
its foftnefs, not to have been the original Bed or Matrix 
wherein the Stones were bred $ but that being, in pecking 
the Rock or Mine, broken off from that, they w r ere after- 
wards cafually lodged in this. 
Thefe Stones grow in Calecut, Cambaia, and JEthyopia. 
As alfo in Spain and Bohemia, where, contrary to what is 
Gem B ° e< L de °^ erve< ^ °f mo1 ^ other Gems, they are found exceeding the 
c/jDeLaet. Oriental (e) Many of them will abide the fire, without 
deGem.& change of colour. (/) 
( g ) Mr.Boyk, Spirit of Salt extracts a rich Tinclure out of Granates 
of Gems, calcin d and finely powder d. (g) And Aq. Regis , a rich 
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