Sec. IV, Ch. 3: Semi-Precious Stone, Amber

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	pity of the gods, who mercifully changed them into trees, and their tears still flowing on, became Amber. A yet stranger origin is given to this fossil, in the well-known couplet of the fire-worshippers—" Around thee shall glisten the loveliest Amber, that ever the sorrowing sea bird hath wept." , The great value set upon Amber, even in pre-historic times, is seen in the care with which objects of this material were interred with their possessors in tumuli or burial-mounds of very early date. The finest archaic specimen in this country is an Amber cup in the Brighton Museum, originally found with bronze and stone weapons in a barrow at Hove. AMBER.

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