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• Fig.; xlix. A cubical die of mundic, .'with its re&anglés planed
off;' ks' c, -4r*e^ ;
n iii-A 'rhombus, a, betmxt font - flopes; the twouppermoft, d d*
triangular ; - the two underneath,' d-b, incomplete triangles; their
apiëês‘planed* off,j4 ErQm Huêl-Cock in St. Juft,, 17^0. ^ i
• i l. Another view of the fame, mundic-grain, exhibiting the o<fto-
gön,/i? betwixt, foür -triangular flopes, d, d, d,e d.
V £fïj ‘ A very exadt parallelopiped.of a gold-colour*.
*• Lin. ‘A- cufi^ of. mundic with' this peculiarity*‘that it has five:
ofi-its: eight angles’with their apices , as; it were' cut off, and yet of
the fame poliffied fttrface as the reft of'the cube.
■ .«MVr A**' piece of tubulary - wreathed, brafs - coloured, fparkling
mundic. I
h‘-vLV. Anothêr-ipecimen of the fame kind; brafs-colouréd;
b^Lvi. A vermicular fcroll of mundic, thrown into irregular menders
aS'rifponceThe habitation of an'infedt. N . B . Thefe may hè
ermiculdria'glomeratai ' Lhuyd' calls'the ftony.foffils of
óf'dike ftlkpe (Lithophylacium, N°. 1215) from the ftonè quarries
near Thame in Oxfordshire, and ‘may ferve to {hew that we,have
extraneous foflils of the vermicular, as well as teftaccous, and fun-
goëid kindi in'mundie-3
p fe vn . A 'heptahedrad <cufpis of yellow, poliflied-muhdic.
E tx v i 1 1 .* A tetrahedral cufpis of brais-coloured mundic, with two
öppofite fides; quadrangular, two triangular.
IpkiX. Tetrahedral cufpides o f mundic, the fides triangular.
lx. Two pyramids of a quadrangular plan joined bafe to bale.
Nlp^r. Wire-wrought, globularj: buttoay müridiè, from the Pool
Ippper-work, 1756..
tP fcx ii. Anothèr variety of the feme,
f ' lxi 11 . A third.
fh^oe echinated balls of buttony^-mundic connedted. From
the femë.mine.
f Here wë'have in mundic the refemblances of plants and animals,
the moldings, cafts, and carvings ‘of fancy, the figures of fcience
and erudition, and more, varieties will occur doubtlefs to thofe who
fëarch longer and with greater attention than I have done; but
thefe are enough to furprize us with their regularity and art. The
firft of thefe may proceed from natural principles (fetch as mineral
or metallic felts) determined to a<ft in a particular manner, although
to produce fuch a multiplicity of geometrical, fpherical, andredh-
Knear figures* as are here exhibited, thefe principles muft be very
Vyf The followings figures are fupplèmental} the dies, as the laft four do to the convex, circular
four firft belong fo; the clafs of geometrical mun- mundics.
o o various;