CHAP. LXXXVI. Lapides bene vel malè olentes; of stones of smell and savour.
THe stones that have savour are of the kinds of small stones. The savour that they have is some∣times
A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...
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good and pleasing, and sometimes evil and displeasing. Anselmus Boetius saith, that he had some of the kinds of small stones that smelt like vio∣lets: which were some of them of a white colour, and others of a brownish colour. But concerning the originall of the savours and sweet smells in these stones, upon better consideration, he saith, that the smell did not proceed from the stones, but from the greenish slime that did adhere to them; which slime being taken away, the smell also vanisht. Boet. p. 258.
All these kinds of common soft stones, do for the most part, partake of the savour of those things that grow neare to them.