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RHINE. Rhine, gold-washings, 101.
------diamonds, 133.
Riecia diamond, the, 415.
Rose-diamond, 43.
Ruby antique, 144; the largest, 413.
------omen given by, 424.
Rubace, false ruby, 179. Rudolf II., topaz of, 160.
-----pearl of, 233.
------clears the diamond, 420.
Ruspone, 113.
Runjeet Singh's emerald, 323.
S.
Sacro Catino, 320. Salagrama, 390. Samir, 20, 2S0. Saney, the, 39.
------history of, 418.
Sandaster, 291. San tenia, 161. Sappare, 196.
Sapphire, 201. ine,------158.
Sard, Semi, 290. ------Babylonia!
299.------ burnt, 300.
Sardinian quarries, 285.
------serpentine, 209.
Sardoine, 205, 299. Sardonyx defined, 302.
------bored, 304.,
------falsified, 300, 307.
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mines of, 297. Sassanian gems, 54. Seaptc-Hylo gold-mines, 106. Scipio,
shield of, 82. Scorpion-stone, 388. Scottish pearls, 230. Selenites,
92, 385. Shemest, 60. Shylock's ring, 424. Sideritis, 224. Sidonian
glass. 363. Silver-mines, 67.
------assay of, 212.
Silex,
Roman, 124. Sirius, the Dog, 54. Smaragdi, monster, 328. Smyris, 246.
Soften gems, to, 36G. Solders, antique, 110, 161. Solinus, 6.
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TYMPANIA. Solomon,
table of, 321. — gem of, 353 ; cup, 372. Sonnica, 401. Sotacus, 1.
Spanish mines, 09. Sparrmann, 307. Spinel ruby, 145. Stag's-horn stone,
382. Standard of gold, 112, 422.
------silver, 71.
Star sapphire, 91.
St. Stephen's stone, 206.
Stibium, 72.
Stork and ruby, 150.
Strahl-pfeil, 155.
Strass, 369.
Suriam, Syrian, garnet, 52.
Syria Dea, gems ottered to. 407.
T.
Tables
of the Law, stoue of, 294. Table-diamond, 28. Talc, used in magic, 383.
Talismans, 11, 65,142. "Tallow-drop," vide "Cabochon." Tanos, 290, 426.
Taprobane, pearls, 229. Tassio's pastes, 428. Tax, capitation, 121.
Teucer, 74. Thasos, mines, 95. Tlieodamas, 377. Theophrastus, 1.
Thronus, Jacobus, 29. Thunder-bolt, 155. Toadstone, 125. Tolosanum
aurum, 103. Topaz, Oriental, 165.
------Brazilian, 167.
------white, 47 ; pink, 240.
Torques,
Gallic, 103. Touchstone, 212. Tree-agate, 361. Trezzo, 29. Tricolor
agate, 15. Triophthalmus, 258. Turbo, shape of, 21, 430. Turquois, 137.
------virtues of, 422.
Tutenague, known to the Greeks, 213 Tympania, 229.
2 G
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