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Feuchtwanger: Treatise on Gems

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	PREFACE.	7

	million tons of coal is not inconsiderable. The marble of the country, which is just beginning to be developed, bids- fair to compete with that of any other country, .and to revolutionize the civilized world. The marble from California, that from the quarry lately discovered in Pennsylvania, the Leocadia Breccia, the Verde-Antique of Vermont, and the white marble from Canaan, Conn., which is used in the construction of the Fifth wenue Hotel, Madison Square, N. Y.'are referred to as illustrations. Are not the sienites and the granites which have been quarried for the last fifty years, and which have been used in the erection of all our public edifices, really as valuable as Gems ? Few persons were aware, until recently, of the existence of fancy (variegated) marbles in this country ; and Italy, Greece, and Ireland furnish the materials for ornamenting fine houses and cemeteries, beeause our own resources have been overlooked, or not developed. What will be the condition of things fifty years hence, when the fine arts will occupy as prominent a position in this country as in any other, and when wealth and taste will compete with the arts and sciences for the ascendency ? The Almighty has converted the vegetables of the forest into a mineral substance, the animals of the sea into building-stone, and endowed man with the faculty of exploring and developing the hidden treasures of nature, and this faculty will soon render this country independent of all other nations. The principal aim .of the author has been to explain not only the useful, but also the ornamental mineral substances, and such compositions called mosaics as are prepared from them, and he is indebted for much valuable information pertaining to this branch of the subject to the Jury Report of the London Exhibition.

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1 Page 399 second in August and September; and the more rain, the more
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2 Page 401 weight of twenty-four grains is counted as thirty; so that a
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3 Page 398 body on, or by boring a hole in, the shell. The Chinese are
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4 Page 400 At the Pearl Islands, near the Isthmus of Panama, the pearl
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5 Page 406 In 1620, King Philip IV., of Spain, purchased a pear-shaped
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6 Page 401 weight of twenty-four grains is counted as thirty; so that a
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7 Page 402 reach the age of seven or eight years, and in the fourth yea
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8 Page 403 found in the Elster river, in the kingdom of Saxony, from it
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9 Page 404 nearly two millions of francs ; Julius Csesar presented to S
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10 Page 404 nearly two millions of francs ; Julius Csesar presented to S
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11 Page 405 The seed pearls, when quite round, are worth about one hundr
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12 Page 411 and on the Continent ; around Southampton, in England, these
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13 Page 412 Artificial Pearls. Artificial pearls or beads are of variou
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15 Page 409 near the town of Paterson, New Jersey, went to a neighbori
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16 Page 410 of Messrs. Tiffany & Co., was purchased from Mr. Howell for
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17 Page 415 The shad-fish, as well as the white-fish of our lakes, must
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18 Page 413 decomposition, and for their preservation numerous chemica
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19 Page 414 Heidelberg, Nuremberg, Sonnenberg, Meistersdorf, in Bohemi
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