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Symmes, Colonel, 310 Syria, 80, 138, 167, 343» 347 Syriam, 303 Syrians, 78, 180
Tabernacle, Jewish, n8, 120
o£ the Escurial, 150 Table of Solomon, 268 Tancred, 99 Tarpeia, 108 Tarpeian rock, 108 Tartary, 252, 253, 3*7 Tavernier, 39, 45) et passim Taylor, B., 64, 124 Teheran, 119 Temple of Concord, 106, 119, 276, 336
Delphi, no
Diana, 127
Jerusalem, 118, 276
Jupiter, 274
the Magi, 359
Melkart, 275 Ten Commandments, 245 Tennant, Professor, 70, 214, 227 Tertiary period, 346 Tertulhan, 82 Tests applied, 26, 27 Thaïes, 345 The /Eneid, 153 Thebaid, 273 Thebes, 76, 109, no Theodorus, 106 Theodoric, Count, 257 Theophrastus, 8, 131, 141, 143, 169, 251, 274, 28S,
3°5, 340 The Holy City, 117
Kaaba, 138, 139
Metamorphoses, 132, 153
most ancient jewel, 118
number twelve, 120
Passion, 120
serpent, 139
Tay Mahal, 126, 127
"Three Brothers," 256
Virgin, 106, 122, 124, 12g
West, 232
"Wilderness," 147 Thibet, 127, 313, 317 Thomsonite, 339 Thothmes II., 77
III., 119 Thurston, General G. P., 56 Tiber, 299
Tiffany & Co., 5, 57, 189, 190,210,240, 244 Timour, or Tamerlane, 83 Tippoo Sahib, 89 Titan ite, 333 Toad-stone, 139 Tobias, ι zj
Toledo, 46, 60, 84, 246, 274 Tonquin, women of, no Topaz, 246,-277-279 Brazilian, 365 fels, 279 Mexican, 365 Oriental, 246 Scotch, 279 Spanish, 365 Tourmaline, 306
varieties of, 309 Tourmalines of Maine, 311, 312 Tower of London, 36, 70, 72, 180, 222 Townley, 42 Townshend, C. H., 44 Trade in precious stones, 31, 195, 196 Transparency, 14 Trezzo, 150, 194
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Tripoli, 287 * Trojan War, 251 Trojans, 134 Troy, 134 Tudor princes, 94 Turbo, 138
Turkey, 59, 193, 230, 320 Turk, M., 46 Turkish conquest, 85
nobility, 85
sultans; 67, 86, 87 Turin, 305, 335 Turquoise, 312-316
Mount, 313 Persian, 312, 313 Tuscany, 153, 323 Tyre, 275^ Tyrian princes, 79 Tyrians, 343 Tyrol, 310» 332» 361
Ulysses, 147
Unio, 288
United States, 54, 159, et passim
Ur, 146
Urals, 64, 207, et passim
" Urim and Thummim," 118
Uses of precious stones, 75
ancient, 76-85 modern, 85 sacred, 115-130 secular, 75-101 in Burgundy, 89-91
England, 93,94,95,96
France, 92, 93
India, 88, 89
Italy, 91
Mogul Empire, 87, 88
Scotland, 94
Spain, 91
Turkey, 85, 86
the United States, 209
Vaal River, 203, 204 Valho River, 186 Valenciamte, 331 Vase of St. Denis, 38 Vatican, 41, 262
Library, 360 Venice, 25, 104, 360, 365 Venus, 116
-hair stone, 340, 351
statue of, 336 Vermont, 310 Versailles, 45 Vesta, statue of, no Vesuvianite, 365 Vesuvius, 10 Vicentino, 124 Vicenza, 47 Viceroy of Egypt, 269 Vienna, 41, 61, 62, 163, 175, 248, 286
cabinet, 323 Villa do Principe, 201 Virginia, 207, 328, 330 Visconti, 47, 92, 158 Vishnu, 128, 289 Visigoths, 84 Volcanic glass, 335 Vosges Mountains, 333 Vulgate, 118 Vulpinite, 337 Vulpius, 337
Wagram, 267 Wakefield Tower, 70 Wales, 288
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