232 PRECIOUS STONES.
cymophane identical in all respects with the cymo-phane found in America, in small but very perfectly formed crystals.
The
processes we have just described are all disÂtinguished by special
features, though depending, as already mentioned, on a small number of
laws. It is probable that nature has employed them by turns. In any
case they suffice to explain the forÂmation of the greater number of
crystallized mineral substances at present known.