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Having sufficiently examined these beautiful varieties of calcedony, the visitor should pass at once to the northern range of tables.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard

In many of them, "quartz, calcedony, red ochre, gypsum, and salts are found."

From Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter by Bullitt, Alexander Clark

The floor of the cavern was covered with heaps of water-worn fragments of quartzoze rock containing copper pyrites, in some of which the cavities were covered by a deposit of greenish calcedony.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest

These are certain concretions of calcedony, and also of iron-ore, which are thought to have such resemblance to stalactical concretions as, by some superficial observers, to be reckoned of the same kind.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James

I have good reason to believe that water contained within a solid flint will not make its escape, as does that contained in the anhydrites of Mount Berico, which are composed of a porous calcedony.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James