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Io4 FLINT GENUS. jnsk; the beautiful rofe red variety atMukla in Leff er * Afia, where it was difcovered by an intelligent tr2' j veller, our countryman Mr Hawkins: alfo in and Ceylon. In Europe, in Bohemia at Schlack^ 11 ' | wald, Zinnwald and Heinrichgriin ; in Saxony at Scheckenftein, Altenberg, Zinnwald, Eibenftock* I Ehrenfriederdorf and Geier; in Cornwall in EnS' land Obfcrvalions. 1. When colour w'as confidered as affording f ^ moft certain means of diltinguilhing the prec* hones from each other, many different fofiils affociated with the topaz; and varieties of top^ were defcribed as diftincf fpecies. lhus the ytl ifli white fapphire was termed oriental topaz, y^ r y. ifh rock cryftals Bohemian or occidental topaz ; c ^ folite was alfo confidered as a variety of topaz: the other hand, the greenilh varieties of topaz " named aqua marine, and the blue, fapphire. ^ 2. The topaz of the ancients is confidere Werner to be our chryfolite. ^ t <j 3. The Saxon topaz is reckoned by, jewell er> have the moft fire^ j $ 4. In the colle&ion of the mufeum of nature tory at Paris, there is a Brazilian topaz which ^ 4 ounces 2 gros. seventeen