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Uteafils made of Vegetables, chiefly Gourds; and 
fome Snow Shoes and Sledges ufed in the Northern 
Nations of Europe. 
COLLECTIO SLOANIAN A. 
The next Room on which I fhall attempt to 
make my curfory Remarks, contains a Colle&ion 
of Minerals and Foffils. 
Silices. Achates. Sardi. 
In the Cabinet under thefe Titles are Specimens 
of Flints, Agates, and Cornelians. 
At the Top are fome large Pieces of Cryftal 
brought from the Hartz Foreft in Germany , and 
ether Mines. 
Flints in their natural State are a Kind of femi- 
tranfparent Stone, found in almoft ail Parts of the 
World ; they ftrike Fire with Steel, and by intenfe 
Heat are melted into Glafs : Such of them as are 
capable of receiving a fine Polifh, and are variega¬ 
ted in Colour, (which Variety thefe as well as ail 
other Stones are fuppofed to receive from the 
influence of fome neighbouring Mine) are ranked 
among the lower prized Gems. 
Agates are cut and polifhed Stones of the fineft 
Kind of Flints, generally found in the Eaftern and 
warmer Climates; they vary much in Colour, and 
were called Achates from a River in Sicily of that 
Name, on the Banks of which they were, as it is 
fuppofed, firft found. 
A particular Kind of Agates, that have by Na¬ 
ture delineated on them lively E.eprefentations of 
Moffes, Shrubs, Trees, Landscapes, or other Fi¬ 
gures, 
