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 ued for etting in Cups and other Veels of Gold, they have from Bactriana, toward the Deart: They go thither on Horeback to earch for them, at the Time. of the blowing of the Eteian or annual Eaterly Winds; for they are een at that Time, as the Sands are violently toed about by the Winds: What they find there, however, are but mall.

LXIV. Of the Number of the Precious Stones is that alo which is called