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	204	A POPULAR TREATISE ON GEMS.

	dred and thirty-nine and a half carats, and is valued at one hundred and nine thousand two hundred and fifty pounds. It is beautiful and well formed, but its color turns towards the yellow. There is another belonging to the crown, which was formerly in the possession of Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, who lost his all in the battle of Granson. This diamond was at that time the largest iu Europe. A Swiss soldier, who was the robber thereof, sold it foi a crown dollar to a priest; and after passing through several hands, it was purchased by Pope Julian II. for twenty thousand ducats. The Regent, or Pitt diamond, belonging to the crown of Fiance, is said to have been found in Malacca, and was purchased by Mr. Pitt, then governor of Bencoolen, in Sumatra, and sold by him to the Regent, duke of Orleans, by whom it was placed among the crown-jewels of Fiance. It weighs one hundred and thirty-six and three quarters carats; is cut in the form of a brilliant, and is of the first water, being absolutely faultless. When rough, it weighed four hundred and ten carats, required two years' labor in cutting, and is worth, according to the value put by the commission of jewellers, in 1791, twelve millions of livres. It was much admired in the exhibition of Paris, in 1855, among the crown-jewels of France. The Sancy, belonging to the crown of France, is one of the celebrated diamonds, although not as large as the last mentioned, still a very beautiful stone ; it is of a pear-shape, is cut as a double rose-diamond of an oblong figure, and weighs fifty-six and a lf carats (thirty-three and twelve sixteenths, according to Barbot), and it cost 600,000 livres, but is now valued at double that sum. A very curious history is attached to this stone, which may not be uninteresting to the reader, for its peregrina-

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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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14 Page 406 n 1620, King Philip IV., of Spain, purchased a pear-shaped p
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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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