ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤΟΥ
ΤΟΥ ΕΡΕΣΙΟΥ
ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ
ΛΙΘΩΝ
ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.
THEOPHRASTUS's
HISTORY OF STONES.
With an English Version, and Notes,
Including the Modern Hiſtory of the Gems deſcribed by
that Author; and of many other of the Native Fossils.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
TWO LETTERS:
I. On the Colours of the Sapphire and Turquoise.
II. Upon the Effects of different Menſtruums on Copper.
Both tending to illuſtrate the Doctrine of the Gems being
coloured by Metalline Particles.
The SECOND EDITION;
Enlarged by the Addition of a Greek Index of all the
Words in Theophrastus.
ALSO
OBSERVATIONS on the New SWEDISH ACID,
and of the Stone from which it is obtained;
AND WITH
An IDEA of a Natural and Artificial Method of Fossils.
By Sir JOHN HILL.
LONDON:
Printed for the AUTHOR, in St. James's-Street:
And ſold by L. Davis, in Holborn; Nourse, in the Strand; White, in
Fleet-Street; Cater, in Holborn; Bell, in the Strand; Fletcher,
at Oxford; Woodyer, at Cambridge; and Bell, at Edinburgh.
M DCC LXXIV.
