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Of Gems. 
Part III. 
(b ) Aldrov. 
Muf. Metall. 
(c Lib. 2. 
c. 43. 
(d) Ibid. 
Two little white or pale SAPHIRES, poliiVd into a Hat 
oval Figure. By fome called The■ Female: and fo the 
paler lands of other Gems. The belt, grow in Bifjiagar, 
Zeilan, and other parts of the Eaft-Indies,d\ penally in Pegu. 
The meaner, m Bohemia, and other adjacent places. They 
are cut or fafhiond with Emery and Trifoly $ and en¬ 
graven with Diamond-Duft, as other harder Gems. Being 
trt) Eoct. de burnt, they imitate a Diamond, as doth the Amethyft. (a) 
Gem. &L. And Ms uftum and Glafs melted together, imitate a Sa- 
phire. (b) 
The Saphire, faith Boetius, (c) being applied to any 
bruifed part, prohibits the Inflammation of it, in a miracu¬ 
lous manner.See alfo th cSalt and Tinllure (d) ol it defenbed 
and commended by the fame Author. 
The GRAN ATE, qu. Ingranate, or Ingrained. And there¬ 
fore by the French called VERMEILLE: and the Matrix, 
by Mofcardo , Minera de Ingranata. The deepeft, well com¬ 
pared by Imp er at us to the juyee of a ripe Mulberry. Here 
arc of feveral fizes. 
A BOHEMICK GRANATE,as big as a. Nutmeg. With 
feveral more of the fame fize, or near it. 
Some other Large GRANATES, polifh’d with Rhombs. 
But thefe are cloudy. 
A Bag of Leffer GRANATES, of feveral fizes from a 
Peafe to a Mujiard-Seed. 
A BED of GRANATES from the Weft-Indies. Given 
by the Honourable Rob. Boyle Efq;. Molt of them as big 
as a large Peafe, beded in a Stone which is friable, and eafily 
rub’d to a redifh and glittering powder 5 in fome places a 
little black,and growing with crofs Flakes. It feemeth,from 
its foftnefs, not to have been the original Bed or Matrix 
wherein the Stones were bred; but that being, in pecking 
the Roc I or Mine, broken off from that, they were after¬ 
wards cafually lodged in this. 
Thefe Stones grow in Calecut, Cambaia, and Mthyopia. 
As alfo in Spain and Bohemia , where, contrary to what is 
Gem E &L de °^*' ervcc ^ °f tnoft other Gems, they are found exceeding the 
(//DeL-aet. Oriental, (e) Many of them will abide the fire, withoi. 
tie Gem. & change of colour. (/) 
(ft) Mr. BoyU, Spirit of Salt extracts a rich Tincture out of Granates 
of Gems, calcin’d and finely powder’d, (g) And Aq. Regis , a ri h 
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