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  ditinguihed and acertained the Places of the one as well as the other.

The Carthaginian or Garamantine Carbuncle was, as I have oberved in another Place, what we now call the Garnet, &c. This Place was o famous for it, that it was called by many the Carchedonius Lapis,.

Quo Carchedonios optas ignes lapideos

Nisi ut cintillent?

That the Carthaginian and Garamantine Carbuncle were really the ame Stone, is acertained by Strabo,. And Epiphanius adds his Confirmation of this Place being famous for the Carbuncle,. Pliny, and other of the Antients, confirm alo their being found in Egypt and Maila; and Salmaius has very judiciouly rendered the lat mentioned Place intelligible, by altering it from, as it always before was written, to , the Name of a Kingdom in the inland part of Æthiopia. It is to be oberved, however, that the following Ages grew nicer in regard to their Gems; for two of the Kinds we find here placed among the more perfect and valuable, the Egyptian, and (according to the jut mentioned Emendation of ) Æthiopian, were even before the Days of Pliny, ranked among the meaner Kinds; Archelaus & in Ægypto circa Thebas naci tradidit fragiles, venoas, morienti Carboni imiles. And, Satyrus Æthiopicos dicit ee pingues lucemque non emittentes, aut fundentes, ed convoluto igne flagrantes. Lib. 37. c. 7. and Mailia, from Ægypt, about the Cataracts of the Nile, and the Neighbourhood of Syene, a City of the Elephantines, and from the Country called Pebos.

LXIII. In Cyprus alo are found the Emerald and the Japer ; but what are