A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century - Unknown

[ [360] Toque or proof.

[ [361] Equal to a carat and a third.

[ [362] These two names must be the same word Kringa-nila; blue stone, perhaps. In Ramusio, Quiniganilam.

[ [363] Capucar in Ramusio.

[ [365] Exer in Ramusio.

[ [366] Kerman. Chiraman, Ortelius.

[ [367] In the MS. the passage reads as mina y tierra seca.

[ [368] The Times reviewer of Mr. Emmanuel's book On Precious Stones, April 5, 1866, is in error in saying that "the zircon is known in trade as the jacinth or hyacinth".

The jargon, corindon or circon, which was much used in the xvi^th century, is not held in any estimation at the present time; it has the merit of possessing the hardness of the sapphire.