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Sard, 262, 263
Sardis, 363
satrap of, 106
Sardonyx, 360
Arabian, 360 *
cup, 43
Indian, 360
Sargon, 78, 79
Sassamaii period, 162
Saussurite, 328
Saxon court, 51
kmgs, 63
palace, 50
queens, 63
Saxons, 114
Saxony, 247, 27S, 279, 283, 318
Scale of hardness, 15, 16
Scandinavia, 304, 323
Scarabei, 43, 48, 55, 164
Egyptian, 153
Etruscan, 153
Sceptre, 62
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of the Iliad, 62
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Schliemaun, 60
School of Mines, 54
Schorl, 307
Scipio Africanus, 60
Scotch jewellers, 365
pearls, 2g6
topaz, 27g
Scotland, 72, 73, 104, 278, 279, 288, 339, 365, 366
Scot, Michael, 142
Scott, Sir W., 73, 91, 295
Scriptures, 30, 366
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Scythians, 270
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Seal, 111-114
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of Augustus, 113
Charlemagne, 113
China, 368
Darius, 113
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Galba, 113
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Maecenas, 113
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Michael Angelo, 113
Persian, 112
of Pompey, 113
the Roman Pontiff, 114
Sylla, 113
Seaton, 151
Secular uses of precious stones, 75-114
Seizure of smuggled gems, 209
Sejanus, 315
Selenite, 337
Seneca, 83
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Sennacherib, 113
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Sepoy mutiny, 215
Serapis, 107, 113, 116, 165, 166
Seringapatam, 220
Sèvres, 25
Seville, 296
Shaffras, 232, 233
Shah, 217, 314
Jehan, 87, 88, 126
Kokh, 214, 231
of Persia, 67, 137, 142, 292, 301
Soojah, 214, 272
Shakspeare, 108, 134, 295, 315
Shat-el-Arab, 232
Shepherd-stone, 230
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Shrine of Astarte, 127
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Canterbury, 129
Edward the Confessor, 129
Vishnu, 128
Loretto, 128, 268
Saint Cuthbert, 129
Denis, 128
Ethelreda, 129 I
Saint Thomas à Becket, 129
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Shrine of the Three Kings, 25, 128
Shrines, 127
of France, 128
Italy, 128
portable, 127
of Spain, 12S
Westminster, 129
Shylock, 315
Siam, 252, 301
Siberia, 54, 04, et passim
Sicily, 346
Sidney, 206
Sierra da Frio, 202
" Siege of Troy," 134
Sikhs, 214
Silesia, 313, 363, 369
SiUcified wood, 369
Sirletti, 150
Size of gems, 38, 39, 40
Smart, 151
Smith, J. L., 338
Smoke-stone. 365
Solinus, 131, 135, 245
Solon> ς3, 149
" Sonstadt's Solution," 17
South Africa, 176, 189, 210, ζχν, s20t 333
America, 39, et passim
Spain, 100, i22, 126, 128, 15^-·, ;„4i
Spaniards, 89, 91, 296^325, ,27 .
Spanish ambassador, 268, 294
conquerors, 107
conquest, 265, 270, 273
peninsula, 268
Specific gravity, 16
" Speculum Lapideum," 13S
Spenser, 134
Spinel, 300-302
varieties, 300
Spodumene, 337
Stanislaus, 53
Star-ruby, 250
sapphire, 250
Statue of Memnon, 336
Steatite, 337
Stilicho, no
Stosch, 194
gems, 49
Stone of Balachan, 301
tl Jachen," 14α
George, Mr., 369
Stoneham, 259, 263
Stones for engraving, 160-165
of Paradise, 116
Strabo, 269
Strass, 23, 24
Strasburg, 149
Streeter, E. W., 151, 176, et passim
Strozzi collection, 42, 48
Stuarts, 33, 95
Style of antique art, 154
Succinite, 345
Suetonius, 100
Suisun marble, 22, 23
Sultan Mahmoud, no, 181
of Oude, 268
Turkey, 86, 212
Sumnat, statue of, 116
Sumptuary laws, 34-36
Sun-stone, 330
Su sa, 133
Suvoroff, 98
Sweden, 39, 297, 301, 310, z11, 339
Swedish nobles, 98
Swiss, 91
Switzerland, 91, 223, 311, 326, 334, 346, 352
Sylla, 113
Symbolical gems, 120
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