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 Sapphire, is ufficient Proof, that they cannot be the ame: as no body would ever think of comparing a Thing to itelf: But after having gone through a compleat Decription of the Lyncurius, according to the received, though erroneous, Opinion of thoe Times, of its being produced from the Urine of the Lynx; he begins a eparate Account of Amber under its own proper Name; and hews he was well acquainted with its Nature and Properties, and knew it to be a native Foile. Hence it is therefore alo evident, that the Lapis Lyncurius was not Amber, and that the generally received Opinions of it are both evidently erroneous. That uch as had not read the Antients themelves hould fall into Errors of this kind, from the Obcurity and Confuion of thoe who copied from them, we cannot wonder. But here it may not be amis to oberve, that it is not the Antients themelves, but thee Copiers and Quoters of them, who are generally obcure. Epiphanius, who was better acquainted with them, has made a different Gues, and is, indeed, the firt Author who has had the leat Thought of what I hall attempt to prove to be evidently the Truth in regard to this Stone.

What it is not, has been ufficiently proved. It remains to enquire, what it really is. The Way to judge of this is, to conider what the Antients have left us about it: What Theophratus ays we have before us. That it was of a tony Texture is plain from his Account, and may be confirmed from all thoe who wrote more determinately; they have always called it,. Epiphanius has,. And Pliny, l. 8. c. 38. Lyncum humor ita redditus, ubi gignuntur; glaciatur arecitque in Gemmas Carbunculis imiles, & igneo colore fulgentes Lyncurium vocatas. Can any one imagine this a Decription of a Belemnites? All that we find in the Antients about it, in hort, is of this Kind, and determines the Lapis Lyncurius to have been a tranparent Gem, of no determinate Shape, and of a yellowih red or flame Colour, ometimes paler, and ometimes deeper; which ditinguihed it into Male and Female; as we hall ee hereafter in this Author; and of a Texture fit for engraving on. Had the Antients meant to have deeribed our Belemnites, they would not only not have named any one LII. They are found, in digging, by People who are kilful; though the Creature, when it has voided its Urine, hides it, and heaps the Earth together