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River-Pearls; British and Foreign.
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" She meets with Conway first, which lyeth next at hand Whose precious orient Pearle that breedeth in her sand, Above the other floods of Britalne doth her grace."
—Drayton's Polyolbion.
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English Pearls.
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seems proved beyond doubt that Pearl-fishing in the rivers of Britain
was an established industry long before the Roman Conquest. According
to the historian, Suetonius, who wrote the lives of the Caesars in the
early part of the second century, one of the inducements for
undertaking the expedition against Britain, under the "divine Julius,"
was to obtain
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