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afh coloured afhen alfo alfo found antients Argenville Bayreuth beautiful bright brown colour Bruckm Burnt caft Canton of Bern capable caufeway Cent clofe coarfe compact texture compofed defcribed dendritæ eafily elegant Epift faid fame fays feem feen feveral fhades fhells fhores fides fire with fteel firft flate fmall fmooth furface Foff foffils foft folid texture fome fometimes fomewhat fpangles fparry fpecies fpots Franconia ftone ftrata ftratum ftreaks ftrike fire ftructure fubftance fuch genus glittering gloffy granite green colour grey hardneſs heavy and hard Helvetica Hill's Hift Imperat Itin kind Lapis likewife loofe maffes Marmor marmoroides moderately hard moft numbers obferved Ophites Oryctogr pale pillars polifh porphyry quantities quarries quartz refemble Richter Saxum arenarium Scheuchzer Schiftus Silefia ſpots ſteel ſtone Subterr Sweden Syft talc thefe theſe thick fet thofe Tophus ufed uſed vafes vaft variegated variegatum variety veins white colour whitish Woodward yellow