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 irony 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 armeniac. It is called Sicilian earth.