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PROVINCE OP FTjnKIEN. 



Changchau (Fu). Rock-crystal in Changpu (hien). 

 Taiwan (Fa). Sulphur in Changhwa (liien). 



PROVINCE OF KWANGTUNG. 



KwANGCHATJ (Fu). Amber. Amethyst at Mt. Pan in Tungwei (hien). 



Shauchau (Fu). Sulphate of iron. 



KiUNGCiiAU (Fu). Flint at Mt. Li. Whetstone at Mt. Shi. Large ro.ck-crystals at Mt. Wutsz'. 



PROVINCE OF KWANGSI 



Sz'CHiNG (Fu). Realgar. 



WuoHAU (Fu). Rock-crystal W. of Tsanghoh (hien). 



PROVINCE OF YUNNAN. ^ 



Yunnan (Fu). Nitre in Yungmen (hien). 



WuTiNG (chau). Blue jade in Tungsan. Touchstone in the Kinshakiang river. Nitre, from wells, 



in YuENMAU (hien). 

 Likiang (Fu). Green and black jade in Mt. Mohpeh. 

 YuNGCHANG (Fu). Amber in Tangtueh (chau). Agates at Mt. Manau in Paushan (hien). Topaz 



and rock-crystal at Mungmitosz' in Paushan (hien). Feitsui, and white and black jade at 



Maumotosz', and blue jade at TunqVueii (ting). 



The mountains of Southern Yunnan seem to abound in precious stones. 



The working of beautiful stones into objects of ornament, forms an important 

 branch of industry in several of the large cities. Jade of various colors, serpentine, 

 steatite,^ and dendritic marbles, are made into an endless variety of household orna- 

 ments. Topaz, aqua-marine, pink turmaline, opaque sapphires, jadeite^ (Feitsui), 

 lapis-lazuli, sungurshi, a mineral similar to turquois, rock-crystal, garnets, and many 

 other precious and semi-precious stones, are carved, with great labor and patience, 

 in very intricate forms. Several snuflf bottles carved out of blue corundum were 

 seen, the cavit'y being very small at the neck, and enlarged symmetrically and 

 polished in the interior. 



No diamonds were seen in any of the lapidaries' shops, although the Chinese 

 have a name for that stone. Emeralds are very rare, and although the Chinese 

 name is lieupaushi (green precious stone), they are known among lapidaries as 

 Sz'mxdu, the name of Sumatra, whence they are probably -obtained. 



Eubies are more common, although often confounded with spinelles and hya- 

 cinths. Sapjjhires are frequent, and often of fine water and respectable size. 



* Much of the stone known as pagodite has been shown by Prof. G. J. Brush to be a compact 

 pyrophyllite. 



° Feitsui is, perhaps, the most prized of all stones among the Chinese. The chalcMhuitl, a pre- 

 cious stone of the ancient Mexicans, as I have seen it in a mask preserved in the museum of Pract. 

 Geol. in London, and in several ornaments in the collection of Mr. Squiers in New York, is, appa- 

 rently, the same mineral. This fact is the more remarkable, as there is no known occurrence of this 

 mineral in America. 



