286 Of Gems. Part III. 
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,md other parts of the £^ W/>s,efpecially in Pegu. 
The meaner, in Bohemia, and other adjacent places. They 
are cut or fafhiond with Emery and Tripoly^ and en- 
graven with Diamond-Daft, as other harder Gems. Being 
(a) Eoet. de burnt, they imitate a Diamo?id, as doth the Amethyft. (a) 
Gem.&L. ^ nc j u p m anc j Q[ a f s me lted together, imitate a Sa- 
(b) Aldrov. phire. {b) 
c! U Lib. £ 2 aU ' Ttle Saphire, faith Boetim, (c) being applied to any 
c. 43. ' bruifed part, prohibits the Inflammation of it, in a miracu- 
cd) ibid. l° us nianner.See alfo the Salt and Tintlure (d) of it defcribed 
and commended by the fame Author. 
The GRAN ATE, qu. Ingranate, or Ingraind. And there- 
fore by the French called VERMEILLE : and the Matrix, 
by Mofcardo, Minera de Ingranata. The deepeil, well com- 
pared by Imperatus to the Juyce of a ripe Mulberry. Here 
are of feveral fizes. 
A BOHEMICK GRAN ATE, as big as a Nutmeg. With 
feveral more of the fame fize, or near it. 
Some other Large GRANATES, polifh'd with Rhombs. 
But thefe are cloudy. 
A Bag of Le(fer GRANATES, of feveral fizes from a 
Feafe 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 rediih and gliftering powder $ 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 were 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 
( e ) Boet.^de obferved of moft other Gems, they are found exceeding the 
(fTDe^aet. Oriental, (e) Many of them will abide the fire, without 
de Gem. & change of colour. (/) 
fg)Mr.B 0 y f , Spirit of Salt extracts a rich Tincture out of Granates 
of Gems, calcin d and finely powder d. (g) And Aq. Regis , a rich 
p. 88. folu- 
