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Ch. 1: Precious Stones Introduction

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DIAMONDS
AND
PRECIOUS STONES.
PART I.
Precious Stones: their Origin; Geological Position; Physical Characteristics; Optical and Electrical Properties; External Characteristics ; Susceptibility to the action of Eight and Heat.
" The jewel that we see, ive stoop and raise; But that we do not see, we tread upon, And never think of it."
In the following pages we intend to treat not merely of precious stones strictly so called—that is, such mineral substances as have in all times at­tracted the attention of man by their hardness, their brilliancy, their colour, their scarcity, &c, but also of a certain number of productions which have nothing in common with the true precious stones, either in composition or origin, but which as articles of finery and adornment play precisely the same part as the latter.
When we contemplate the boundless wealth of
nature we might imagine that the number of precious
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