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The SHARKS TOOTH. Glof/opetra: fo call’d, for 
that thefe Stones were fabled by fome to be the Tongues of 
Serpents , in the Kle Malta or Me lit a , turn’d into Stones 
ever fince St. Paul Preached there. But the Englijh Name, 
is much more anfwerable to the lhape. Which yet is va¬ 
rious, as well as the fize and colour; as afh-colour’d or 
black, long or broad* ftrait or crooked, with the edges 
toothed or plain. Of the brown, ftrait, indented and 
broader fort here are feveral very great ones. One, three 
inches broad; and four, long: with the exerted part, 
fmooth; the Root, rough. Every way, in lhape, fo like 
the Tooth of a Shark, that one Tooth cannot beliker to 
another. Yet if it be fuch, then by comparing thofe in 
the Head of a Shark , with This, That to which This be¬ 
long’d, to bear a juft porportion, mull have been about 
fix and thirty feet in length. 
A GLOSSOPETRA, growing to a ftony Bed. ’Tis of 
a lightilh colour: and was brought as is fuppofed, from 
Melita. 
ANOTHER, of a Idler fort. The Root of this is 
rough, as of the reft. But not expanded with the exerted 
part, as is ufual, but of a globular Figure. 
Thefe Stones are dilfoluble with any Acid. Whereby it 
appears, That (befides fuch Metallick Principles they are 
fometimes tincftur’d with) they abound with an Alkalizate- 
Salt. They are found not only in Melita , but in Germany, 
and many other places. Figur’d by Aldrovandws (a) and by fa) M.ifcm 
others. ' 
DRAGONS TEETH. Given by Sir Phil. Skjppon. 
Glofopetrce Claviculares. So I call them, becaufe they 
feem to be of the fame kind; and are long and flender, 
fomewhat like a fmall Nail; and much more like a Tongue 
(fc. of lome fmall Bird) than any of the former. 
The GOATS-HORN. Tephrites Boetij ; from its alhen 
colour. S elenites Cardani ; from its almoft Semilunar 
Figure. Inwardly, ’tis of a blewifh Grey. Outwardly* 
mixed with oblique and white ftreaks. Of a bended figure, 
yet with one end thicker than the other, not unlike a Goats 
Horn ; whence I have taken leave for the Englijh Name. 
Broken at both ends, yet above 1 a foot long, and two 
inches and 1 where broadeft. The Belly or inward Ambit, 
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