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	American locality, and the crystals, unbroken, would equal the finest foreign crystals known. It furnished the finest aquamarine ever found in the United States, measuring 1 2/5 inches (35 milli­meters) by 1 2/5 inches (35 millimeters), by f inch (20 millimeters). It was cut as a brilliant and weighs 133 3/4 carats. The color is bluish-green, and, with the exception of a few hairlike internal striations, is perfect. (See Colored Plate No. 5.) In addition to this remarkable gem, the same crystal furnished over 300 carats of fine stones. The other crystal is doubly terminated, being 1 2/5 inches (41 millimeters) long, and 3/15 inch (15 millimeters) in diameter. Half of it is transparent, with a faint green color, the remainder is of a milky green and only translucent. Where the two colors meet, the crystal, like the Haddam beryls, has the appearance of a solution in which a flocculent precipitate has almost completely settled, leaving the upper portion nearly clear. Beryl, resembling the Siberian, is found in greenish-yellow and deep-green crystals, in the South Mountains, nine miles southwest of Morganton, Burke County; in the Sugar Mountains at Shoup's Ford, Dietz's, Huffman's, and Hildebrand's; and in smaller crystals in Jackson County, N. C. One fine blue-green crystal in quartz was found at Mill's Gold Mine, Burke County, and one fine transparent green crystal from that vicinity is now in the cabinet of M. T. Lynde, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Fine blue-green aquamarine occurs at Ray's Mine on Hurricane Mountain, Yancey County, N. C. Clear green beryls have been found at Balsam Gap, Buncombe County; Carter's Mine, Madison County; Thorn Mountain, Macon County, and at Wells, Gaston County. Some crystals 2 feet long and 7 feet in diam­eter, small pieces of which would cut into gems with small, clear spots, occur four miles south of Bakersville Creek, and still larger crystals, not of gem value, at Grassey Creek, N. C. Beautiful transparent beryls have been found at Streaked Moun­tains, Norway, Lovell, Bethell, and Franklin Plantation, Me., and very good ones also at Mount Mica and Grafton, Me. At Albany, Me., have been found beautiful transparent golden-yellow beryls that would cut into perfect gems of over 2 carats each. A fine sea-green aquamarine beryl, weighing