Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze, History and description of the Royal Museum of natural history… (1823)
“ A group of similar crystals of a remarkable size is placed in this room, near the windows; the crystals are nearly a foot long, and altogether weigh 525 pounds: they come from Fischbach, in Valais. The colourless hyaline quartz, or rock-crystal, is employed in making lustres, vases of different forms, etc. This substance is not always limpid, as in the crystals of which we have just now spoken; it is often coloured by other matter, without entirely losing its transparency, and then it is named according to its different tints. ”
