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Ch. 4: Rubies

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PRECIOUS STONES.
A fourth, seen by Tavernier in India, is repre­sented by Fig. 56.
According to the judgment of Tavernier it was of secondary beauty; yet this celebrated traveller offered $11,160 to the diamond merchant who pos­sessed it, but could not obtain it at that price.
A ruby possessed by Gustavus Adolphus, and presented by him to the Czarina in 1777, at the
time of his journey to St. Petersburg, was the size of a small hen's egg.
A ruby in the French crown, adorning the order of the golden fleece, is in the form of a dragon.
Finally, it is seen from the inventory of 1791 that France then possessed eighty-one oriental rubies, estimated at $6138.
In England the ruby is especially prized; and some beautiful and very valuable stones are in the
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