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Excerpt from A Popular Treatise on Gems, in Reference to Their Scientific Value; A Guide for the Teacher of Natural Sciences, the Jeweller, and Amateur: Together With a Description of the Elements of Mineralogy, and All Ornamental and Architectural Materials Few persons were aware, until recently, of the existence of fancy (variegated) marbles in this country and Italy, Greece, and Ireland furnish the materials for ornamenting fine houses and cemeteries, because our own resources have been overlooked, or not developed. What will be the condition of things fifty years hence, when the fine arts will occupy as prominent a po sitiou in this country as in any other, and when wealth and taste will compete with the arts and sciences for the ascendency? The Almighty has converted the vegetables of the forest into a mineral substance, the animals of the sea into building-stone, and endowed man with the faculty of exploring and developing the hidden treasures of nature, and this faculty will soon render this country independent of all other nations. The principal aim of the author has been to explain not only the useful, but also the ornamental mineral substances, and such compositions called mosaics as are prepared from them, and he is indebted for much valuable information pertaining to this branch of the subject to the Jury Report of the London Exhibition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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