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Ch. 4: Fabulous Stones and Fossils

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194         THE MAGIC OF JEWELS AND CHARMS
sharp and clearly defined as though the work of an engraver or gem-cutter.78 These fossils are types of encrinites.
The sections of the stem-like fossils called entrochus by the older writers have been named St. Cuthbert's beads in
later times, while the fossil called lapis Judaicus has borne the name of "stone-lily," because in form it resembles the lily. Ages ago the stem and flower-like head united consti-
"Ibid., p. 300; lib. ii, cap. cxlviii.
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