Part III. And Stones lify them. 
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The SHARKS TOOTH. Glofopetra : fo calm , for 
that thefe Stones were fabled by fome to be the Tongues of 
Serpents, in the Ifle Malta or Melita, turn cl into Stones 
ever fince St. Paul Preached there. But the Englijh Name, 
is much more anfwerable to the lhape. Which yet is va- 
rious, as well as the fize and colour 3 as afh-colour'd or 
black, long or broad, ftrait or crooked, with the edges 
toothed or plain. Of the brown, ftrait, indented and 
broader fort here are fevcral very great ones. One, three 
inches broad 5 and four, long: with the exerted part, 
fmooth ; the Root, rough. Every way, in lhape, fo like 
the Tooth of a Sharks that one Tooth cannot be liker to 
another. Yet if it be fuch, then by comparing thofe in 
the Head of a Shark. ■> with This, That to which This be- 
longed, to bear a juft porportion, muft have been about 
fix and thirty feet in length. 
A GLOSSOPETRA, growing to aftony Bed. 'Tis of 
a lightifh colour : and was brought as is fuppofed, from 
Melita. 
ANOTHER , of a leffer fort. The Root of this is 
rough, as of the reft. But not expanded with the exerted 
part, as is ufual, but of a globular Figure; 
Thefe Stones are dilfoluble with any Acid. Whereby it 
appears, That(befides fuch Metallick Principles they are 
fometimes tinctur d with ) they abound with an Atkalizate- 
Salt. They are found not only in Melita, but in Germany, 
and many other places. Figur'd by Aldrovandus (a) and by (a) Mufeum 
others. MetalIic - 
DRAGONS TEETH. Given by Sir Phil. Siippon. 
Glofopetrae Claviculares. So I call them , becaufe they 
feem to be of the fame kind 5 and are long and flender, 
fomewhat like a fmall Nail 3 and much more like a Tongue 
(fc. of fome fmall Bird ) than any of the former. 
The GOATS-HORN. Tephrites Boetij 5 from its afhen 
colour. Selenites Cardani 3 from its almoft Semilunar 
Figure. Inwardly, 'tis of a blewilh Grey. Outwardly, 
mixed with oblique and white ftreaks. Of a bended figure, 
yet with one end thicker than the other, not unlike a Goats 
Horn 3 whence I have taken leave for the Englijh Name. 
Broken at both ends, yet above JS afoot long, and two 
inches and * where broadeft. The Belly or inward Ambit, 
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