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Of Stones Irregular. 
Part III. 
Of thefe lightly burnt, is made that which is properly called 
Gypfum And Statues of any defirable bignefs,yet very light. 
A LIME-STONE (Saxum Calcarium) having greenifh 
Veins mixed with a filver glofs. This being burnt, is that 
commonly called QuickzLime. Pliny mentions a mix- 
ture of QuickzLime and Hogs-Greafe , ufually calPd 
Maltha: whence our Englifh word Mortar. 'Tis alfo 
(jys*&& u fed for the Trying of Ores, (a) Boetius defcnbes an 
Aqua Calcis, mixed with Sal Armoniac, as an admirable 
Remedy for Bums, Fiftulas, Cancers, and Spots in the Eyes ■ 
&?GYh ap ' nc ac ^ s > and Spots in Cotton-Cloaths. (b) 
c. 2 9 \. 1 ' 2 * FLAKED DROPSTONE. Stalactites Laminatm. Found 
in the top of the Hills near Wooten Vnderridge in Glouce fier- 
ce) Mufacum /hire. In Aldrovaridus (c) are feveral of thefe called Succi 
Metallic. ^ 
C oncreti. 
ANOTHER, digged from under the Root of a Tree in 
Cre-Forreft. Given by Dr. Edward Brown. 
A SPONGY DROPSTONE, of an afh-colour, as the 
reft. 
A piece or two of fmall Dropftones fent from Vendennh- 
Caftle : faid to to have had a ftrong fcent \ but now hath 
none. 
Yellow GREAT-GLIST. Ammochryfos, Boetio. SocalPd, 
for that it confifts of a great number of gloffy fparks almoll 
of the colour of Gold, immerfed in a gritty Bed. And by 
Wormius and others therefore called Mica. 
White GREAT-GLIST. Ammar gyros, as I call it, the 
fparks in this being of a bright filver-colour. \ 
f^Foffil. Kentman (d) ranketh both thefe with Mufcovy-Glafs. 
Nomend. And 'tis plain, That the faid fparks are flaky, and flexible, 
as that Stone : and is therefore either the fame broken to 
fmall pieces, in digging for it 5 or, at leaft, an afray of Na- 
ture towards it. But furely no Metallick Body, as Wormius 
fuppofeth it 3 unlefs he means, that 'tis fometimes found in 
Metallick Mines. 
A Red DAZE, or fmall GLIST, from Cornwall. It dif- 
fers from the Mica, chiefly, in the fmallnefs of the 
fparks. For they feem to me, to be altogether of the fame 
nature. 
A Brown DAZE (from the fame place ) with an angu- 
lar Vein of yellow Daze in it 5 and both mixed with Very 
fmall 
