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Ch. 4: Pearl-bearers, Marine and Fresh-water

Ancient Ideas on the Origin & Virtues of Pearls

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	CHAPTER IV. Pearl Bearers ; Marine and Fresh-water. " Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house ; as your Pearl in your foul oyster.—As You Like It, Act v. Scene iv.

	AVING shewn in the preceding chapters how universal is the love of Pearls, and what a prominent position they occupy in the fashionable world for purposes of decoration ; having alluded also to some of the ideas that have at various times prevailed with respect to their origin, virtues and significance, we are now led naturally to the consideration of the principal sources whence our supply of these valuable gems is derived. Pearls may be defined, in scientific language, as calcareous concretions, produced by certain shell-

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