Excerpt from A General System of Nature, Through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals: Systematically Divided Into Their Several Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, and Varieties, With Their Habitations, Manners, Economy, Structure, and Peculiarities Diaphanous flones have their origin from a' fluid mother, opake ilones from a fixed one. They are often tinged with a vitriolic alumen, varying in colon! According to their various tineiures, and by thefe are filled and cortfolidated with a cicatrix the filfures of rocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."