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Aaron's breastplate, 119 Abbas Mirza, 230, 233 Abbey, Croyland, 124
οί Riche nau, 276
St. Denis, 263 Abbot Suger, 122 Abd-ul-Aziz, 87 Aberdeen, 259 Abraxas, 165, 166 A bride's trousseau, 96, 97 Academy of Sciences, France, 306
Philadelphia, 54 New York, 190 Adamantine spar, 169 Adam, 139 Adamas, 7 Adams, W., Jr., 369 Adolfskoi River, 207 Adriatic Sea, 104 Adularia, 331 /Egean Sea, 148 JEscnlapius, 8 Afghanistan, 229 Afghan monarchs, 213
soldier, 232 Africa, 105 Africanus, 360 Agalmatolite, 342 Aga Mohammed, 214, 231 Agate, 355
Bay, 356 of St. Denis, 157 varieties of, 355, 356 Agassiz, 172 Agincourt, 71 Agra, 88, 126, 337 Ahab, 102 Ahasuerus, 102 Ahmed Shah, 213 Aix-la-Chapelle, 59, 61, 267 Alabama, 207, 208 Alabandine stone, 302 Aladdin's cave, 311 Alaric, 277
Alaska Expedition, 326 Albani, 42 " Alchymist," 134 Alcmaeon, no Alexander County, 338
I., 322
the Great, 41,80,113,148,164,317,
Severus, 116 Alexandria, 165, 274 Alexandrite, 322 Alexis Comnenus, 65 Alicante, 126 Ali Pasha, 229 Alps, 247
Altai Mountains, 262, 269 Amarapura River, 253 Amasis, 105
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Amazon Stone, 327 Amber, 7, 8, 345 Amber Islands, 345 Ambergris, 346 Amenophis, 55
America, 49, 272, 304, 311, 325 American Rebellion, 236 Amethyst, 7, 353
necklace, 354 oriental, 246 Amherst College, 243 Amiens, 90 Amorphous bodies, 18 Amphiaraus, no
Amsterdam, 187, 189, 215, 219, 308 Amulets, 167 Ancient jewelry, 76 Andalusite, 341 Anglo-Saxons, 84, 109, 305 Anne of Geierstein, 91, ι μ, 283 Antiquity of gems, 28, 29, 30 Anubis, 166 Apocalypse, 117 Apophyllite, 324 Apollonius, 149 Apotheosis of Augustus, 157 Aquamarine, 246, 261, 262 Aqueous theory, 9, 10 Arabia, 88, 127, 138, 247, 2S2, 318, 359 Arabian prince, 292
romances, 134 Arabic, 315, 316 Arabs, 269, 295 A rade, 146 Aralo-Persian, 230 Archangel, 331
Archbishop of Canterbury, 71 Archimedes, 17 Argos, 366 Ancia, 106 Arizona, 208, 278, 302, 313, 320, 329, 369
Swindle, 208, 209 Arkansas, 353, 369 Armenia, 81 Arsinöe, 336 Art, Etruscan, 43 Greek, 43 Roman, 43 Artificial gems, 23
pearls, 299 Aschentrecker, 308 Asia, 59, 80, 89, 148, 247, 272, 299 Minor, 60, 127, 253, 347, 362 Asiatic princes, 101, 255
Russia, 331 A Spartan stone, 141 Assander, 48 Assembly of France, 68, 69
Constitutional, 226
National, 69 Assur-banipal, 76
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