Amber
as a mineral, called also sucreddish, brownish, or whitish and clouded. color is generally yellow, but sometimes reddish, brownish, or whitish and clouded. cent, and sometimes transparent. It is resinous in luster, always translucent, and sometimes transparent. It is brittle, and yields easily to the knife. It fuses at 287° C. It is also combustible, burning readily with a yellow flame, and emitting an agreeable odor. It is also highly electrical, so much so that electricity is derived from the Greek word elektron, found It is or elektros amber. und in Europe, Asia, and America. It is valued as a gem.
Pliny was correct when he considered pine family, like gum from the cherry, and resin from the ordinary pine. Its exact age is as yet undetermined. ermined. Of 163 species of plants found in it, 30 still exist. Eight hundred species of insects have also been met with in it, with re- exist. Eight hundred species of insects mains of animals of other classes.
In Scripture, the word amber, Hebrew chasmal (Ezek. i: 4, 27; vii: 2), is not In Scripture, the word amber, Hebrew for the advantage of his own nation. what is now called by the name, but a mixed metal.
AMBERGRIS, a hence it is used as a perfume. stance. Its odor is very agreeable, and from the intestines of the sperm whale, substance derived and found floating or on the shore; yelstance. Its odor is very agreeable, and chiefly composed of a peculiar fatty subbony fish, found in the Mammoth Cave a North American bony fish, found in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and interesting as illustrating in the rudimentary condition of its AMBLYOPSIS, eyes the effects of darkness and conseable, however, to hear acutely, and the small eyes covered by the skin. It seems inches in length, is colorless, and has its wrinkles of skin on its head are regarded small eyes covered by the skin. It seems inches in length, is colorless , and has its fishes are found only in the unsunned as special feeling organs. Wholly blind ocean depths. in the department on the Loire, 15 miles by rail E. of Tours. It lies in a region rich in vinein the department of Indre-et-Loire, AMBOISE (ämb-wäz'), a French town yards. The town is memorable for the Huguenot conspiracy (1560), which cost ent of Indre-et-Loire, the lives of 1,200 Protestants, and as the place whence was issued the Edict of Amboise (1563), conceding certain priv- the place whence was issued the Edict of ileges to the Huguenots. The castle of Amboise, from 1431, was a frequent resi- ileges to the Huguenots. The castle of dence of the Valois kings; the birth and death place of Charles VIII. Pop. about 5,000. 1460. He became successively Bishop of