Item - The World's Minor Gems: Transparent, Translucent and Opaque - Topaz

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 24 no. 8 — page 4
Alternate Titles:	Topaz The World's Minor Gems, No. 2
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXIV, no. 8, January 7, 1869 (Issue)
Author:	Fairfield, Francis Gerry
Date:	January 7, 1869
First Sentence:	This name, according to Pliny, is derived from Topazos, an island in the Red Sea, but has no reference to the color of the stone.
Last Sentence:	The topaz is found in great variety, and in countless numbers, in various spots throughout New England; also in Wisconsin, California, and in most of the Sothern and Middle Atlantic States of the Union.