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Ch. 6: Garnet

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	GARNET.	249

	gia, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Professor Edward Hitchcock once exhibited to the author some beautiful cut precious garnets from Berkshire county, Massachusetts; the Hon. Mr. Clingman, IT. S. Senator from North Carolina, has some very handsome transparent garnets from his district in Buncombe county, North Carolina. The common garnet is met with in dodecahedrons, from three to four inches in diameter, at Fahlun in Sweden, Arendal and Kongsberg in Norway, and the Zillerthal in Tyrol; in Moravia, Silesia, and Siberia; in granular limestone at Haslan, near Eger, in Bohemia ; beautiful crystals of a rich brownish-red color, disseminated in hornblende gneiss, are found in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States; dark blood-red and splendid dodecahedrons, with peached and truncated edges, at Franconia, New Hampshire, in geodes, in massive quartz, calcareous spar, and magnetic iron ore; at Carlisle, Massachusetts, beautiful geodes of crystals of transparent cinnamon color, accompanying scapolite in white limestone; at Monroe and Had-dam, Connecticut, imbedded in mica slate, also associated with chrysoberyl, beryl, automolite, and columbite; large dodecahedral crystals, two inches and more in diameter, of a dark brownish-red color, at New Fane and Marlborough, in chlorite slate; also in mica slate, in Chesterfield, Massachusetts. Colophonite is a granular brown variety, and is found in Arendal, Norway, and forms a large vein in gneiss at Willsborough, New York, on Lake Champlain; a finer * graded variety of yellow and red colors is found on Rogers' Rock, at Lake George. The colophonite is composed of coarse, roundish particles, oil-green and honey-yellow colors, and often possesses a fine iridescence. Allochroite is similar to colophonite, but the particles are impalpable and strongly coherent.

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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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