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Pearls and Pearling Life by Edwin Streeter

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Here the reader may learn something about the Pearls occasionally found in certain streams in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, various parts of Europe, the United States, Canada and China.
Those exceptional Pearls which possess a colour sufficiently marked to render them attractive, are next described, and it is hoped that my own experience in connexion with black and pink Pearls, may be of some interest. The book would have been incomplete without a notice of those famous Pearls which have figured in history. A chapter is con­sequently devoted to this subject, and another to that remarkable cluster of Australian Pearls, known as "The Southern Cross," which attracted so much attention at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.
It only remains to tender my thanks to those who have been good enough to assist me in the preparation of this work. To the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, I am indebted for a description of the constellation of the Southern Cross ; and to Mr. F. W. Rudler and Dr. MacLarty for much valu­able assistance on various scientific matters. Above all, however, I desire to thank Mr. T. H. Haynes, a gentleman who, in connexion with my Pearling operations, has been through the Sooloo Archipelago, and neighbouring islands, and along the coast of New Guinea and Northern and Western Australia,
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