GARNET. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gemma Granatus. G. dura ponderosa rubra texturae inequalis j 
igne leniori colorem servans, paulo fortiori 
in scoriam opacam fuscam spumidam 
abiens. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 3. p. 1 76 . 
A hard heavy red gem, of an unequal tex- 
ture ; retains its colour in a gentle heat, 
but melts into a frothy opake brown sco- 
ria in a strong fire. 
Gemma plus minus pellucida, duritie octava, 
colore obscure rubro in igne permanente. 
Waller. Miner. 11 7 . 
Garnet. . . . Cronst. Miner. 1 . p. 154. Kir w an } Miner. I . 
258. Patrin , Hist. Nat. des Miner. 2. 
p. 51. Brogn. Miner. 1 . p. 594 . 
The garnet varies more than any other gem, both 
in the form of its crystals and in its colour ; some 
being of a deep red, some yellowish, or of a purple 
tint, and others brown, blackish, and quite opake. 
They are generally of a spherical form, and never 
crystallize with less than twelve sides. The pre- 
vailing colour is a fine red, and the mean size that 
of a large pea ; though, according to Patrin, they 
are found from the size of a grain of sand to three or 
