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Ch.14: River Pearls, British & Foreign

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240                                 Pearls.
Margarites, which I took put of the shell myselt to see the experiment, and I further gained this knowledge thereby, that all such that have Margarites in them are rough and craggy on the outside, the rest are all plain ; by which observation I soon avoided fruitlesse labour in opening of such as had nothing in them. I found also many fair ones which were not fully ripe, and so came short of that bright Oriental colour which others have."
The late Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, an eminent English conchologist, writing of the two common species of British Unios—U. tumidus and U. pictorum—says: "Both of these species produce Pearls, though of very small size and inferior lustre. A consolidated mass of Pearl is sometimes formed inside the right valve near the margin of the posterior side."
Scotch Pearls.
In Tytler's " History of Scotland," we read that as far back as the twelfth century, considerable com­merce in Scotch Pearls was carried on. A fishery existed up to the end of the last century, in the river Tay, which is alluded to in Goldsmith's " Natural History." In the river Earn, a tributary of the Tay, and in the river Doon, Pearl-mussel gathering found
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