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Flexible sandstone. Garnets loose, and imbedded 
in gneiss, steatite, &c. Vesuvian, commonly 
called volcanic hyacinth. A rough diamond. 
Beryl, called aqua-marine, shorl-beryl. Saxon 
and Brazilian topazes. Axinite or thumerstein. 
Chrysoprase. Actynolite; tremolite, &c. 
(Div. 5.) Heliotrope, called also bloodstone ; 
Egyptian jasper, known by the name of Caillou 
d’Egypte ; striped or riband jaspers ; porcelain 
jaspers, &c. Scotch and other plain and striped 
flints, cut and polished. Precious opal of brilliant 
colours, disseminated in a dissolved porphyritic 
mass ; semiopal : variety usually called Oculus 
mundi, becoming transparent when immersed in 
water (a polished oval piece in a case). Pitch- 
stone; tuberose stone or menilite, from Menil 
Montant near Paris, where alone it has been 
hitherto found. Woodstone or petrified Wood 
(in one of the specimens the pores are completely 
preserved). Calcedony in stalactitical and other 
forms: an egg-shaped piece of calcedony, con¬ 
taining water (enhydros); cacholong or calcedony 
in a state of decomposition, &c.; carnelians : a 
druse with red quartz crystals ; mocha stones, &c. 
(Div. 6.) Various agates : j asp-agates, forti¬ 
fication agates, onychine agates, moss agates, 
&c,—Mealy, fibrous, foliated zeolite; cubicite, 
&c.; 
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