Hudibras . ow in thepossession of the very learned and ingenious earl of Orford, at Straw-berry It appears to be a volcanic production, of the speciesvulgarly called the black Iceland agate, which is a perfectly vitrifiedlava; and according to Bergmans analysis, contains of siliceous parts in an hundred: argillaceous twenty-two parts, andmartial nine. See Berg. Opusc. vol. ili. p. 204. and Letters from Ice-land, Ictt. 2.). The lapis obsidiaiuis of the ancients is supposed to havebeen of this species : a stone, according to Pliny, quem in ..Ethiopia • See Casaubons relat
Hudibras . ow in thepossession of the very learned and ingenious earl of Orford, at Straw-berry It appears to be a volcanic production, of the speciesvulgarly called the black Iceland agate, which is a perfectly vitrifiedlava; and according to Bergmans analysis, contains of siliceous parts in an hundred: argillaceous twenty-two parts, andmartial nine. See Berg. Opusc. vol. ili. p. 204. and Letters from Ice-land, Ictt. 2.). The lapis obsidiaiuis of the ancients is supposed to havebeen of this species : a stone, according to Pliny, quem in ..Ethiopia • See Casaubons relation of what passed between Dr. Dee and somespirits, printed at London, 1G59. t The authenticity and identity of this stone cannot be doubted,as its descent is more clearly proved than that of Agamemnonssceptre. It was specified in the catalogue of the earl of Peterborough,at Drayton ; thence fell to lady Betty tiermaine, who gave it to theduke of Argylc, and his son lord Frederick Campbell to lord i«^^ I. *^^ ^ --^ ./?At G^ iS)^ix:E,® isjsiLiiiSo ti^x/a/J Un/yiU4 ^-/^^-^. CANTO III.] HUDIBRAS. 35 Where, playing with him at bo-peep, He solvd all problems neer so deep. Agrippa kept a Stygian pug, 635 r th garb and habit of a dog,^ That was his tutor, and the cur Read to th occult philosoplier,^ invenit Obsidius, nigerrinii coloris aliquando et translucidi, crassiore visu, atque in speculis parietum pro imagine umbras reddente. Hist. lib. xxxvi. cap. 2G. The same kind of stone is found also inSouth America; and called by the Spaniards, from its colour, piedra degallina(^o. The poet might here term it the devils looking-glass, from theuse which Dee and Kelly made of it: and because it has been the com-mon practice of conjurers to answer the enquiries of persons, by repre-sentations shewn to them in a looking-glass. Dr. M. Casaubon quotesa passage to this purpose from a manuscript of Roger IJacon, inscribed,De dictis et factis falsorum mathematicorum et daemon
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