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of bead-work in architecture. Beyond the circular cavities are fome 
angular ones, as if for variety. 
Fig. xxi. The colour of the higheft polifhed filver, the circles 
raoft exact, fomewhat concave, edged with a beaded aftragal ; 
is about the tenth of an inch deep, radiated as in the fculpture ; <£, 
has a taper hillock of the fame fpangled mundic in its center, and 
fome faint traces of rays round it. This is part of a large rich in- 
cruftation of the plate-mundic on milk-white cryftal. The fpeci- 
men is one third of an inch thick, nine inches long, and five wide, 
at a medium, with feventeen cavities funk in its furface, nearly of 
the fize of what are here exhibited, five of which have in their 
center the little hillock, b : it coated the fide of the mine, fo that 
its furface was not horizontal but perpendicular. From the fame 
mine. 
XXII. On a greenifh fparkling mundic, a lift of fmall beads plate xvi 
edging like a gold twift, the flap (as it were) of a pocket, imbofled. Pa s e h 1 * 
XXIII. A mundic figure, imbofled in the fhape of a fpear’s 
head, carved at the edge. 
xxiv. On the top of a yellow-fpangled mundic is this flower in 
high relievo, lying Angle and entire, carved at the edges, fparkling 
with gold dull ; it does not confift of circular lines only, but is a 
curious mixture of ftraight and fpherical, not much unlike the form 
of an ancient harp. 
XXV. An embofled flower, carved at the edges, like a goofe-head, 
of gold-colour’d fpangled mundic, covered with a fparkling ochrous 
giidder. 
xxvi. A bird’s head (as it were) embofled, on a thin plate of pur- 
ple-fpangled mundic powder’d in fome parts with gold duft. 
xxvi 1. A regular triangle of fpangled yellow mundic carved at 
the edges. 
xxvni. Granules of brafs-coloured mundic placed in a rhomboidal 
order, fixed on white opake Quartz. 
xxix. A duller of fpangled mundic, with Items underneath, at 
a y a , perpendicular to their brim, fibrous, lacerated like the body 
of a broken nail ; brafs-coloured, feemingly of the fungoeid kind. 
xxx. Crefted with grains rectangular, fpangled ; at b, b, it has two 
ftalks or fupporters like the roots of a tooth, brafs-colour’d, fungoeid. 
xxxi. It’s creft is tufted, the roots of parallel fibres or threads, 
like the fungi ; marked tranfverfly by three indented furrows ; 
brafs-coloured. 
xxxi 1. Crefted as Fig. xxx. but not indented ; fungoeid. 
xxxiii. Under a cap of leafy, rectangular mundic, d, a wavy 
girt or bandage, of mundic lace, e , e, furrounding the whole, the 
threads perpendicular, crofled and divided into fillets by protuberant 
lifts ; 
