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62 for its superior hardness. It is found in its original state in the shape of prisms or hexagonal cylindrical; it was used quite extensively as jewelry by the Romans in the shape of hexagon cylinderi. Beryl varies in quality and in color. When we take into consideration its various qualities and colors, and also the shape in which it is found in its primitive beds, we see that there is no other mineral or metal that the prophet could have mentioned that so fully represents the body of the steam-engine as beryl does. The hand of inspiration is here clearly seen guiding the prophet's pen; the cylindrical shape of this man's body is vividly symbolized and foreshown in the beryl. And then it is supposed that the beryl here mentioned is the same as the chrysolite of the ancients, which includes all stones of a golden or yellowish color. Iron and steel and copper and brass, when put to useful and ornamental purposes, fulfill to the very letter all the requirements of the beryl, of which this man's body was like, whose body also was like the beryl.

Our sixth proposition is, that this man's arms