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共 34 段- In the luxuriant growth of legend that sprang up in Rabbinic
- It has frequently been maintained that the source of pebbles
- An oath taken on sacred stones was regarded by the ancient S
- While nearly all these natural designs are in the flat, occa
- The golden-hued amber was called _chryselectrum_ by Callistr
- In prehistoric times meteorites were quite naturally suppose
- The forging of swords from meteoric iron was, in the opinion
- Many other accidents caused by meteorites or what were belie
- The greatest part of these [medicinal virtues] cannot but be
- A rosary of coral beads was sometimes called in France a _pa
- For Pliny, jet was endowed with many medicinal virtues. Its
- Another class of animal substances, namely, the fossil teeth
- Some said that this stone might be found not only in the eag
- Fossils whose form suggested that of a more or less acutely
- This writer asserts that he considered those bezoars to be g
- Certain so-called floating-stones have been found in a branc
- A curious traditional belief is current in some parts of Ind
- That not only individuals but nations also had special guard
- An heirloom in the family of Dom Pedro of Brazil is said to
- For all attempted identifications of the stones mentioned in
- An ecclesiastical jewel of great beauty and remarkable histo
- Turquoises, usually in connection with gold, belong to the m
- The Egyptians believed that the different kinds of precious
- An Anglo-Saxon treatise on the medical art, from the beginni
- Among the Bhots of Landakh in the western part of Tibet, a l
- The native Greenlanders of a couple of centuries ago had a g
- The magnificent star-sapphire set in the hilt of the richly
- The story was current that Pope Leo X (1475–1521) had a prec
- A sixteenth-century traveller, the Portuguese Duarte Barbosa
- Erman, Adolph, 149
- Traité des Simples of Ibn Al-Beithar, in Notices et Extraits
- Footnote 241:
- “The Travels of M. de Thevenot into the Levant,” London, 168
- See the writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B