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Ch. 9: Birth Stones

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326 THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES
drop and invincible in hardness ; but when its ray is re­solved in the spectrum, it displays all the colors of the gems from which it was made. "Mine," said the god, "must be the gem of the universe; for my queen I will create one that shall be the greatest gem of the sea," and for her he created the pearl.
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