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1 "Molares." "Millstone."
2 Or Serpentine. See Chapter 11 of this Book.
3 Not the Pyrites of modern Mineralogy, combinations of sulphur with various mineral ores.
4 The Greek for "fire" being πῦρ.
5 Sulphate of copper, probably, our Chalcopyrite, or yellow copper pyrites.
6 See B. v. c. 35.
7 Or "quick," "vivos." Ajasson identifies these with the quartz agates that form our gun-flints, a Chalcedonic variety of Silica.
8 Amadue, or German tinder.
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