Pearls, and Pearl Fisheries 302, 330
--------and Pearling Life......184
--------and their Storv ......402
--------, False ..'. ......249
--------, Method of Computing the
Value of, at Madras ... 185 --------the Ceylon Present of, tc
the Princess Royal......179
Pink Ruby............118
Pitchstone in Ceylon ...... 99
Platinum ............238
Plumbago Ceylon Trade in 134, 313 -----------, Crucible Company,
Patent, Visit to the Works 269
-----------, Gold and Gemming
in the Western Province 289
-------------in Ceylon 96, 106, 119, 134,
136, 142, £57, 299, 313
-------------in India ......226
-------------Mines of Ceylon 135, 257
------------- Used as a Mortar and
as a Dye in China ... 334
-----------, Washing for ......246
Pottery Clay in India . ... 225 Precious and Ornamental Stones
of India ......220
----------Stones in Ceylon 111, 129
-------------------and Gems 122,251
--------------------in the United States 19b,
...... 414-422
Pyrope in Ceylon ... ... ... 'JH
~Q.
Quarts, Auriferous, Reduction and
Treatment of ... 210
--------Reef on Amblakande Estate,
Dolosbage, Report on......180
--------- Outcrops of Travancore ... 292
Queensland Opals.........357
R.
Rakwana District, Limestone and
Gems in the ...... 71, 27*
Red Copper Ore ...... ... 240
— Silver Ore .........240
Renss.'laerite .........240
Rock, Crystal ...... 143, 240
--------of Ceylon, Metallic Veins
in the ..... 140,310
-------Salt............240
Rocks and Minerals of Ceylon 140, J 43 Ruby Mines in South Australia and
a Sinhalese ...... 409-413
Rubies ......9?, 112, 124, 221
Ruby, False .........249
-------, Oriental .........251
Rutile ............240
