VUl CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER X. 



" THE TREASTJRE OF AN OYSTER." 



Sweet names given to Pearls ; Barry Cornwall Proctor's lines ; 

 Component parts of Pearls ; Mother-of-pearl ; How Pearls 

 are formed, Son-ows into Gems ; Their nucleus ; Sir Everard 

 Home and Sir David Brewster ; Curious shapes and fancy 

 Jewellery ; Pearl Fisheries ; Bahrein Island and Bay of Can- 

 dalchy ; Miseries of the Divers ; Pearls as Physic ; Immense 

 value of recorded Pearls ; A Perle for a Prince ; Most pre- 

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