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XII. (Book 12)
[illustration]
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Lapides.
Arena 1. & Sabulum 2. est comminutus Lapis.
Saxum 3. est pars Petrae (Cautis) 4.
Cos, 5. Silex, 6.
Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Marmor, 7. &c. sunt lapides obscuri.
Magnes 8. adtrahit ferrum.
Gemmae 9. sunt lapilli pellucidi, ut: Adamas candidus, Rubinus rubeus, Sapphirus caeruleus, Smaragdus viridis, Hyacinthus luteus, &c. & micant angulati.
Margaritae & Ʋniones 10. crescunt in conchis;
Corallia 11. in Marinâ arbusculâ.
Succinum 12. colligitur è mari.
Vitrum 13. simile est Crystallo.
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Stones.
Sand 1. and Gravel 2. is Stone broken into bits.
A great Stone 3. is a piece of a Rock (or Crag) 4.
A whet-stone 5. A Flint, 6.
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Marble 7. &c. •••• ordinary ••••es.
A Load-stone 8. ••••weth Iron to it.
Iewels 9. •••• clear stones, as, The Diamond white, The Rubie red, The Sapphire blew, The Emerald green, The Jacinth yellow, &c. And they glister ••••ing cut in fashion of ••••e nayls of ones hand
Pearls, and Unions 10. grow in Shell-Fish,
Corals, 11. in a Sea-shrub.
Amber, 12. is gathered from the Sea.
Glasse, 13. is like Chry∣stal.