The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-03

Of gems, belonging to the State
Cabinet at ALBANY, and to the Mineral
Logical Clubs collection in the Museum
Apf National History. On Manhattan ISL
IND are found the yellow aquamarine,
beryl,, the pale-green beryl, and
he small, transparent red garnet, the
hartz veins bearing them traYersing
Re archaan rocks. The same veins
tcur elsewhere in the State towards
EAe, Adirondack region. In Lewis
stnnty however, precious stones are
mist ,abuh dant. Here are found, in
ficplar, great quantities Of purple
E8u 81 garnets. AT Newcomb, in the
EEsa bounty, beautiful crystals Of
tpnfmaline are found. Profess
eeecher, of Yale, made this dis
Pow some time ago. In Richville,
IN ttownship of De Kalb, the, finest
,rys4ls Of pyroxene are picked up
rom Fine to time. Cut into gems
weighing from three to thirty carats
each, hey possess q peculiar charm.
fThey lie Of faSrich, oily green, differ
ing nm the tourmaline, peridot, or
ksresn. aTnet
81 0neN the most valuable Of the no
/ fiiVe Pr 4ious stones is the titante or
Esphena Flichis found in the .'Tilly
Foster fine; smear Brewster's, in Put
|snan CdptyA This crystal is OF a
Eoslliantl tlolden substance, and q great
!aForitss nth lapidaries. Cut into
gems, sAows a greater play OF color
than the lamond itself, it is said by,
Mr. Kunzthe Government expert. Its
would be he OF the most remarkable5
gems but lr its softness; in beauty
and colori4 it is unmatched. A sin
gle stone, 4 it's natural form, brings
Nom S1OO A$300. In excavating for
lhs ship caAt on the upper end of
New York land, crystals of smoky
wer4fouad ID blasting the
magnesium mesfone. so, exquisite
in their ~c,JS Sallfzation and natnrSE
polish were (ey Tint thsy had orr nl9l
to be cut intd dmok stopa y s.
GouverneuA n SbLaWrenca GS : FL
seems to be til hona:o :of the q
line. One of tesesstoHsBs 4
lection of EliA Root 81 q II
as q mans n X. 0ccasiolaii q
crystals are tra|parent enoug "a
ford gems Of fr4 one to fivs A.
each. In Ora1f County, neara
sex, on the NeIersey line, crystafSl
at .ssasAiSs are fnd, but they aseiI
not suffeYSS hsparent to bsafff ff
much value. Nehtly they have bss&1
| referred to in cerlp scientific articles
! because their Fence in lime
stone, such as n which they are
here found, is i c{cal with the 90.
cur1ence of the eI {uby in the valley
of the Mogok, Bci3, where the most
highly priced pie nPlood rubies are
found. All the W. S\m Lewis County
to Coney Island ttaare boulders OF
chatoyant, iridese = {eldspar, known
as Labrador spar. pptsses have been
broken from the ! bal deposit at
Keeseville, and scsss ID during the
glacial period, unt,et9w they. lie all
| the way to the ter9S'N moraine in
Prospect Park, Brossb. The SPAR
exists in such quanfsoA one of the
rivers in Lewis CoupeEpd the colors
are so beautifully bsT1t out, that
the river has been COZ Opal River.
Labradorite shows a IsAnf red, green,
blue, purple, and ye tlike g spea-H
t:sk feather-where bassfactured or
cut, e the light strike ewA ascertaia
way. o%%T ~ -
ALTHOUGH, strictly spssssS. = t is not |
precious si1ne, the rSNSIIhss rSSII been
found in many of tis.ssh waite. !
brooks and rivers in thi pe. Pearl
River in Nyack has +. I'd sps,umbers, '
as have also several OF +>aiversS in t
St. Lawrence County. - pearls r
bring from 81 to $10O e4 Con G
orally they are not white. 9, much c
interest attaches to the tiErouS-pink, +
violet, purple and browRpar peatl t
being always the color OF tssMwssell ii =:
which it is formed. TtnSSSeallel !
"Lake George .amonds' ,oSmore f
beautiful than valuable. NuaoundJ r
in their natural setting of \c1rous g
sandstone, they are more\ \tiful hh
than the diamond OF thu \ Gcan 2
mines when it. is first o. ! to d
light. They are found in glr\ lro. t
fusion in Herkimer County, 5Abey {
are usually set in pins and3nhs, g.
jewelers. say, however, that 1 etre g
do they look so we'll as in the,alt. s
ural state, and mineralogists dsAr 8
them always with delight. ThrA- >
stalls, when they are fine, are w b
white, like Carrara marble, and ea n
free from flaws, very beautiful. Sc! p
times they are found so minute &. 1t
when carefully sorted from the i cl
it takes from 10000 to 400, 900
weigh a single ounce; and each A
stal is as perfect as the largest, b,
ing eighteen perfect faces. Gener r.
the so-called Lake George diamo II
sold in cities ore no more crystal II
quartz than are rhinestones bou ~
in Paris cut from Rhine pebbps \
The name is merely a catch-pef ID
one. as ~ s,n
Rose quartz is the mineral Beafs'. y
contributes, from its coarse grani nt Il
It is shade OF pink not excel lied d;n /
equalled, by any found elsewheres&
mineral resembling jade is the mod o
stone peristerite of Jefferson Qountod
This is white substance, with 8 blt
play of color. Wollastonite is foun''
at Bonaparte Lake. Through the en-
tire terminal moraine pebbles ofsMack
jasper nearly foot across cam be
found. They are an intense black,
and are known as basanite or Lydian