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1 "Liver stone." Heavy spar, a sulphate of barytes, is sometimes called Hepatite.
2 "Fat stone." Saponite or soapstone, a silicate of magnesia, is also known as Steatite.
3 An ancient king of Syria, worshipped by the people of that country and the inhabitants of Phrygia. According to Macrobius, the Assyriana worshipped Jupiter and the Sun under this name.
4 "Three-eye stone." Some kind of Cat's eye chalcedony, probably.
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