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Peeling Pearls ...... 119
Peesal ......... 212
Peking, summer palace of 29
Pellegrina, La ...... 291
Pelly, Col., on Persian fishery 218
Pennant, Thomas...... 244
Percival, James, quoted ... 222
Percival, Robert, on Ceylon 188
Peregrina, La ...... 288
Periplus of the Erthyrean Sea 192
Persia, history of Pearls in 30
Persian Gulf Pearl fishery 213
Perozes, Pearl of... ... 31,280
Philip II. of Spain, Pearl of 288 Philip IV. of Spain, Pearls of 289
Philippe le Bel ...... 42
Philo Judœus ...... ^
Phoenicians ...... 32
Physemata ... ... 50
Pigafetta on the " Southern
Cross " ... ... 307
Pilgrims'shells ...... 103
Pink Pearls ... ... 251, 271
Pinna, black Pearls of 77, 270, 278
Placuna Pearls ... 77, 196, 278
Plat, Sir Hugh ...... 238
Pliny Pearl ...... 285
----------quoted 36, 37, 49,
234, 271, 281, 285 Plum-coloured Pearls ... 278 Polyolbion, quoted ... 233 Pompey's triumph ... 36 Princess Royal, Pearl necklace of ... ... 298
Procopius on the Pearl of
Perozes ... ... 31
Purple colour of shells ... 262, 263
Purple of Cassius ... ... 263
Quebec Pearls ... ... 252
Rate of growth of Pearl
shells... ... ... 100
Red Pearls ...... 278
Red Sea Pearl fishery ... 219
Redding. Sir R., on Irish Pearls 243 ,
