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GOAT S-BLOOD.
Goat's blood, a solvent for gems,
354-Guaruaccino, red jacinth, 164.
Hadrian, basalt statue of, 40.
Hsernatinon glass, 329.
Haemachates, 3.
Haematites, Hasmatitis, distinguished, 146,
Heliodorus, 33.
Helen, cup of, 311.
------, talisman of, 38.
Heliogabalus, 186.
Heliotrope and bloodstone, 133.
------, magic use of, 135, 279.
Heraclius, "De Artibus Romano-rum," 201, 339, 355.
Helena, tomb of, 262.
Honey, used in treating gems, 232.
Hope sun-opal, the, 3 20.
Horace, portrait of, 318.
Hydaspes, ring of king, 25 9.
Hysteropetra, 208.
Icterias, jaundice-stone, 168. "Imagines" of Philostratus, 358. Indian glass, porcelain? rir.
------exports to-Koine, 227.
Iris, artificially made, 80. "Ivory, the Fossil," of Theophras-tus, 60.
Jacinth, 94.
------, engravings in, 162.
------, origin of name, 167.
------, a cure for jaundice, 168.
Jade, property of, 203.
------carved by the Aztecs, 204,
------by the Chinese, 206.
—« known to the Celtic Helvetii,
205. Jasp-onyx, 142. Jasper of the moderns, 144. Jaspis of the Greeks, 137.
------of the Romans, 141.
------used for phaleroe, 143.
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MALACHITE,
Jesu, chiesa del, altar front of, 191. Jet ornaments, antique, 132.
------anciently confounded with
bitumen, 129.
Kabyle enamels, 360.
Kaman, Kakaman, Camahen, source
of" cameo," 72. Kertch, tomb-treasures of, 165, Kimmeridge-coal, 131. " Kings of Cologne, the," 74.
Labrador-spar, mithrax, 129, Lapis-lazuli, 273.
------, Egyptian, 274.
------, works in, 275.
------paste, 277, 330.
Latrunculi, 337. Leopard's head, Townley, 221. Leo X., seal of, 264. "Life, fountain of," 316. Liguriua, 161.
------explained, 304.
Loadstone
statue of Venus, 174 Louis XIII., in opal, 247. " Loupe," derived, 55.
"Lupa," rough sapphire, 55. Lumachella, 271. Lycophthalmas, 32Ã. Lydius
lapis, 152. Lyncurium, origin of, 160.
------, the jacinth, 162.
Lynx-tree producing amber, 305.
Magnet, varieties of, 169.
------used for talismans, 171.
------, magical virtues of, 172.
------, an ingredient in glass-making,
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Manganese, Magnes, 174, 350.
Matrix of Opal, 271.
Malwa, " land of Havilah," onyx
mines of, 228. Malachite, an amulet, 177. ------, the Smaragdus Medicus, 178.
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