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Sec. III, Ch. 8: True or Oriental Cat's Eye - The Chrysoberyl

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The True or Oriental Cat's Eye.                 213
Eye" : it occurs chiefly in various shades of yellow, or brown. A greenish variety is found near Hof, in Bavaria, and is largely cut as an ornamental stone; but none of the Quartz Cat's Eye has much value. Even when most per­fect, it cannot be compared for beauty with the Oriental Cat's Eye, for which, side by side, it ought not to be mis­taken, even by the uninitiated.
It may be useful to contrast the characteristics of the two minerals :—
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