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Ch.15: Coloured Pearls

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CHAPTER XV.
 
 

 
 
Coloured Pearls.
 
 

 
 
Brighter the offspring of the morning dew, The evening yields a duskier birth to view ; The younger shells produce a whiter race, We greater age in darker colours trace."
—Marbodus.
 
 

 
 
Ν the above quotation from the curious old " Lapidarium " of Marbodus. fol­lowing the translation given by the Rev. C. W. King, we have an exposition in brief of the views of the ancients respecting the cause of the various tints which are assumed by certain Pearls.
 
 

 
 
It was commonly held by the early naturalists, that the dark-coloured Pearls had been formed either under the gloomy influence of the shades of evening, or by an aged oyster. Dismissing these
 
 

 
     
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