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Ch. 6: Origin and Formation of Pearls

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CHAPTER VI.
The Origin and Formation of Pearls.
' ' Some asked how Pearls did grow and where ? Then spoke I to my girl : To part her lips, and showed them there— The quarelets of Pearl."
—Robert Herrick.
Ο many difficulties surround the study of the Formation of Pearls, that it is by no means surprising that a host of con­jectures, often of a very fanciful and even wild character, have from time to time been promulgated with the view of explaining the origin of these enig­matical little bodies. Many of the ancient. ideas respecting Pearls have been set forth in an earlier chapter ; but with the advance of sciçnçe these
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