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as in the Bezoar or Onyx-, one within another. This Stone 
is found in feveral parts in Afia and Europe. Harder than 
the Onyx , or the Agate ; and is therefore figur’d with 
Emery. Hereof anciently Cups were made, and thofe Dijhes 
call’d Vafa Myrrhina. See Worm. 
The JASPIS. An opacous Gem 5 always, faith Laet, {a) de 
with fome kind of earthynefs. But I take this to be only 
the property of the Lapis Nepbriticus. Tis found of moil 
colours 5 of which here is fome variety. 
A GREEN JASPIS, Rained with White Spots. 
A Flefh-colour’d JASPIS, with Blackifh Striae. 
ANOTHER, Rained with Purple and Blew Spots mixed 
together. 
A FOURTH, Rained with white and red Spots. 
A FIFTH, Variegated with White, Carnation,Red, dark 
Green, and bright Green Veins and Spots. Very like to 
thofe,which Boetius faith are plentifully found in Bohemia. 
A GEOMETRICK JASPER. It feemeth at leaR of 
affinity with the Lapis Sanguinalis defcribed in Boetiu-s. (b) 
But is certainly one fort of Lapis Cruciformis. (c) This Monardes. 
here is polifh’d into a plain Oval Figure, or flat on both 
fides. About an inch and I long, and * thick. In the centre Metaii. 
or middle part of both fides Rands a Rhumb orDiamond- 
fquare part, of a blackifh Green. From the four Angles 
whereof are produced as many Lines of the fame colour$ 
and from each of thefe, two more, at acute Angles 5 the 
extreme parts whereof compofe four more green Parts, as 
it were half Rhumbs: all joyn’d together with a circle near 
the Rim of the Stone. AmongR thefe, fome yellow and 
red Spots are fprinkled up and down. 
A Bag of a courfe fort of JASPER Stones, knockt off 
from thofe in Wilts-fbire near Maryborough , called The 
Grey-Weathers. Given by John Aubrey Efq;. So hard, that 
no Tool will touch them. Generally of a light Grey,fome 
almoR white, many of a dirty red. 
Another, of a blewifhGrey. Taken from a like fhelf of 
Stones at Stone-heng. ’Tis hard enough to fcratch Glafs. 
Another like a green Pebble, found in one of the Streets 
of this City. Where alfo, faith the fore-mentioned Perfon, 
many more arc met with, and that they are a fort of Jafper, 
brought, as Ballaji, from the Eaft-Indies. 
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