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Sec. III, Ch. 1: The Ruby

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The Ruby.                                 153
BURMA RUBIES.
Up to the time of the annexation of Upper Burma to the British Empire, in 1886, no description of the Ruby district had been written by an Englishman ; and the only accessible account of the mines was one by the Padre Guiseppe d'Amato, an Italian Jesuit Missionary in Burma, whose description was published in the "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," for 1833.
Within the last few years, however, our knowledge of the subject has grown rapidly, and at present we are in possession of so large a body of information respecting the character of the country and the working of the mines that the next chapter of this work will be devoted to these subjects. It is therefore, unnecessary in the present place to enter into full details.
From enquiries made on the spot in 1888 by Mr. F. Atlay, who was for some time the author's representative at the mines, and is now the local sub-manager for the Burma Ruby Mines Company, Ltd., it appears that there is a tradition to the effect that the Ruby-tract, including Mogok, Kathe and Kyat-pyin, formerly belonged to Momeit ; and that the Burmese at that time knew nothing about the occurrence of Rubies. It happened in the year 1630 that a Burman came to Mogok with tamarinds for sale ; and having obtained a red stone in exchange for some of his fruit, presented this to the King of Ava The king was so pleased with the Ruby that he entered into negotiations for the tract of country which produced such minerals ; and in the year 1637, he peacefully obtained the Ruby district in exchange for other territory.
The Ruby mining district consists geologically of various kinds of the foliated rocks called gneiss, associated with certain granitic rocks, and interstratified with bands
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