Fossil BEZOAR, is a kind of figured stone, formed, like the animal bezoar, of several coats or strata ranged round some extraneous body which forms a nucleus, and supposed to have the same virtues. It is found chiefly in Sicily, in sand and clay pits. It is of a purple colour, with a rough surface, the size of a walnut, and light. When broken, it is found to be an iron crust, containing in its hollow a fine greenish white earth, resembling pale bezoar. The earth is used, and
not the shells. It seems to be of the nature of bole armeniae. It is also called Sicilian earth.