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THE PEARL
Mud blisters, 92.
Multiple, 276.
Mussel, 90, 257.
Mussel-egg, 43. 116
Mussel Anodonta herculea, 297.
blue-point, 268.
bull head, 266.
butterfly, 268.
deer-horn, 267.
fluter, 260.
Hatchet-back, 268.
heel-splitter, 268,
Lake, 260.
margaritifera, 255.
mucket, 266.
nigger-head, 266.
painter's, 255.
pearl, 255.
red, 234.
swollen-river, 255
sand-shell, 267.
warty-back, 266.
wash-board, 260. Mutton-fish, 245 Mytilene, 50.
N
Nassau pearls, 96.
Nautillus, 16.
New Caledonia, 172. 202, 234.
New Guinea, 202.
Nicaragua, 204.
Nigger-head, 136, 266.
Nomenclature, 56.
Notch Brook pearl, 258, 330.
Nuclei of pearls, 153. 174. 272-
O
Oahu, 206.
Ohio pearls, 258.
Old Testament reference, 56,
Omagh, 49, 256.
Oriental pearls, 89.
Origin of pearls (fables), 311.
Ormer, 93, 246.
p
Painter's mussel, 255. Panama, 203. Paraguana, 239. Parasites, 174. Pearls, Abalone, 92, 156.
assortment of, 228.
baroque, 155, 161, 279.
black, 97, 105.
blister, 92.
blue, 104, 278.
Bombay, 213.
button, 155, 160.
clam, 97, 156.
colors of, 101.
conch, 94, 156.
cracked, 119.
culture, 298.
fancy, 105, 202.
free, 154.
fresh-water, 89, 90, 279.
hammered, 120.
hinge, 91.
imitation, 295.
Japan, 298.
Madras, 102, 215, 277.
Nassau, 96.
oriental, 89.
Panama, 104. 204.
pear-shape, 80, 161.
rose, 91.
seed, 231.
Shah of Persia, 326.
slugs, 280.
soft, 116.
strawberry, 1.
true, 89.
twinned, 159.
wing, 91, 280. Pearl-Oysters, 199. Pearlers, 262, 282. Peelers, 115, 248, 302. Peeling pearls, 115. 302. Periya paar, 220. Persian Gulf, 50, 201. Perthshire Tay pearls, 256.
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