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	372 A POPULAR TREATISE ON GEMS. ries in Massachusetts are at West Stockbridge, Egremont Great Barrington, Lanesborough, New Ashford, Sheffield, and New Marlborough. In New York, marble is quarried in large quantities at Hastings and Sing Sing, and Dover, in Dutchess county, and the range of granular limestones extends through Columbia, Dutchess, and Putnam counties ; and in Connecticut the same granular limestones occur in abundance; also in New Jersey, a few miles west of Philadelphia, and near Ilagerstown, in Maryland. The marble quarries in Rhode Island, Eastern Massachusetts, and Maine, furnish very fine marble, belonging to the metamorphic limestones of a more recent date, but it is not as durable as those of an older age; it is more friable, and has more fissures. Bird's-eye or encrinitar marble forms an extensive bed in the State of New York; it is a compact crinoidal limestone, containing fragments of stems and joints of crinoids of a bright pink, and other organic remains of a dark color, which, on the gray ground, give a beautiful variety. A similar limestone, susceptible of receiving a polish, occurs in the lower bed of the Niagara limestone, at Lockport and at Becraft's Mountain, near Hudson, where the organic remains are nearly similar to the first. Also the Onondaga limestone affords a similar marble, and taking a fine polish, with a much greater variety of organic remains than either pf those just described. All these limestones compose very thick beds, and are all suitable for ornamental purposes; they are a very excellent and durable building-stone, and arc extensively used for the massive and beautiful locks and piers on the Erie canal, at Lockport, and as building-stone in Buffalo, Lockport, and Rochester, and the city hall and court house in Chicago have been built from it; they belong to the group of limestones called the Niagara group. On a recent visit to Buffalo, the author's special attention

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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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