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Topaz The World's Minor Gems, No. 2 |
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New York Weekly edition
Online Full Text: |
Digital Library @ Villanova University
Stanford Digital Repository |
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Series: | New York Weekly v. 24 no. 8 (page 4) |
Item: | The World's Minor Gems: Transparent, Translucent and Opaque - Topaz |
Author: |
Fairfield, Francis Gerry
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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. |
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