weighed 93 grains and was sold to the Empress Eugenie.
Another
round pearl of 400 grains, ruined by boiling, had it been properly
extracted from the mussel, would probably have been the finest and most
notable pearl of this age, though another as large as a pigeon's egg,
dropped from the mollusk and lost when the shell was opened, might have
rivalled it. The finder was wading in a stream in Ohio, feeling for the
projecting edges of the mussels with his feet, and opening them as he
brought them to the surface, as was custom there. This, however, may
have been like the fish that got away.
