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Beryllus, Beryl

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BERYLLUS.                                      135
notice this singular misnomer. In the same jargon the true Beryl is only mentioned as the Aquamarine. Even Natter, who should have known better, has adopted the same system of mis­naming these stones, in the various Catalogues he has drawn up. Hence a fruitful source of error to foreign archaeologists, who, trusting to the English description, give so large a proportion of works as upon Beryl preserved in our Cabinets which are in truth on Sard, according to the well-known rule of the vast preponderance in numbers of the latter over all other species, used by the ancients, collectively.
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