GARNET. 
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four inches in diameter. Those imbedded in granite 
are in general of the smallest size, but at the same 
time the most transparent. 
Among the garnets which are called oriental , may 
be distinguished three different shades, known in 
commerce by as many different names. The gar- 
net of a fine red colour, and free from any mixture, 
is called a* carbuncle. That which approaches to an 
orange is the soranus of the antients, and the ve-- 
meille of the French. Where the fine natural red 
of the garnet is mixed with purple, the stone has 
improperly been named the Syrian ; for it does not 
come from Syria, but from Siren, a capital town in 
Pegu. 
Garnets are found in almost every country where 
primitive rocks exist. Switzerland and Bohemia 
are the two countries in Europe which furnish them 
in the greatest abundance. Those of Bohemia have 
a tint of orange mixed with the red, from whence 
some have given them the name of rubies. These 
stones are likewise found in Hungary, at Pyrna in 
Silesia, in Spain, and in Norway. At Bareith, a 
town in Germany, garnets are found in little irre- 
gular masses, of a fine red colour, and abundantly 
disseminated in a green semitransparent stone called 
serpentine. As they are susceptible of a fine polish, 
the inhabitants form them into several pretty trin- 
kets and other articles of jewellery. 
Black garnets are met with in different situations. 
Ramond, professor of natural history at Tarbes, col- 
lected some from a mountain of the Pyrenees in the 
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