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 XXXII. There is alo an incombutible Stone found about Miletum The Miletian Kind is generally uppoed to be that called by other Authors the Alabandine, as the Places from whence they have their Names are in the ame Kingdom. Theophratus, who decribes the Miletian, has not mentioned the Alabandine; and Pliny, who decribes that, has not named the Miletian.

The other Gems, by the Antients included in the general Name Carbuncle, are ditinuighed by later Writers into various Species of the Ruby, Garnet, Almandine, and Hyacynth; and are,

1. The Rubinus verus, the True Ruby. This is of a fine blood Colour, and of extreme Hardnes, and, when large, is by ome till called a Carbuncle. This is from Cambaja, Calicut, Coria, and the Iland of Ceylon.

2. The Balas Ruby, Rudinus Balaius or Pallacius. This is of a paler red than the former, and tinged with a mixture of blue; its common Shape is oblong and pointed. And either this or the Rock Ruby, as it is called,which is a Species of the Garnet hereafter to be mentioned, is probably the Carbunculus Amethytizontes of Pliny. The Balas Ruby comes principally from the Iland of Ceylon.

3. The Rubinus Spinellus, the Spinell Ruby. This is of a clearer red than the Balas, but is not o bright nor hard as the true Ruby.

4. The Rubacus, the Rubacelle. This is red, with a cat of yellow, and is the leat valuable of all the Kind.

5. The Granatus verus, the true Garnet. This is a very beautiful Gem, and was, as before oberved, the Carbuncle of Theophratus, and Carbunculus Garamanticus of the Antients in general: Its Colour is a deep red, approaching to that of a ripe Mulberry, but held to the Sun, or et on a light Foil, a true Fire Colour. This is ometimes found of a coniderable Size.

6. The Granatus Sorranus, the Sorane Garnet. This is of an intene red, but with ome mixture of yellowih, or of the Colour of the Hyacynth of the Moderns.

7. That Species of the Garnet called the Rock Ruby, the Rudinus rupium, and by the Italians Rubino de la Rocca. This is a very, which is of an angular Shape, and ometimes regularly hexangular; they call this alo