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IN the following pages we intend to treat not merely of precious stones strictly so called-that is, such mineral substances as have in all times attracted the attention of man by their hardness, their brilliancy, their colour, their scarcity, &c., but also of a certain number of productions which have nothing in common with the true precious stones, either in composition or origin, but which as articles of finery and adornment play precisely the same part as the latter.
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South Africa, Albertus Magnus, Duke of Orleans, King of Persia, Michael Angelo, Star of the South, Ural Mountains, Academy of Sciences, East Indies, Grand Mogul, New York, Charles the Bold, Grand-duke of Tuscany, Minas Geraes, Pasha of Egypt
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