about
7 carats, was found near Sumner, Me. Some very clear white stones are
obtained at Pearl Hill, Fitchburg, Mass., and are there sold by the
local dealers. A very fine golden-yellow beryl of 4 carats, from this
locality, is in the collecÂtion of Doctor Hamlin. Fine crystals of
beryl, of almost emerald-green color, also beautiful yellowish-green
and bluish beryls, are found in Deshong's Quarry, near Leiperville, Pa.
At Shaw & Ezra's Quarry, near Chester, in Upper Providence, and in
Middletown, Concord, and Marple Townships, fine specimens have been
found. Fine beryls also have been found at White Horse, three or four
miles below Darby, Pa. Bluish-green and blue beryls occur in the
vicinity of Unionville, Newlin Township, and on Brandywine battlefield,
in Birmingham Township. One crystal, of a dark tourmaline green tint,
over i inch long, in the cabinet of Michael Bradley, of Chester, Pa.,
is from Middletown, Delaware County, and would afford a fine gem. Some
of the stones here have much the appearance of bluish emeralds. The
finest golden-yellow beryls are found at the Avondale Quarries,
Delaware County, Pa. A 20-carat gem is in the cabinet of Mrs. M. J.
Chase, of Philadelphia, and the material for another is in the cabinet
of Clarence S. Bement. In 1882 B. B. Chamberlin found in
Manhattanville, New York City, six fine yellow beryls that cut into
stones of 1 to 2 carats each. At a mica mine in Litchfield County,
Conn., between Litchfield and New Milford, were found during the past
four years a quantity of deep-yellow, light-yellow, yellow-green,
light-green, and white beryls, which were cut into gems and extensively
sold as jewelry, the former under the name of golden beryl. Several
thousand dollars' worth of beryls from this locality were annually
sold. These beryls were at first placed on the New York market as an
entirely new stone, said to be very nearly as hard as the sapÂphire,
and to be from some South American locality. Prof. Eugene A. Smith,
State Geologist of Alabama, obtained from Coosa County, Ala., some
light, golden-yellow beryls of sufficient transparency to furnish small
gems. Large masses weighing many pounds, of translucent, light
sea-green beryl, were obtained at Branchville, Conn., in connection
with other minerals described by Prof. George J. Brush and Prof. Edward
