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GEMS or AUSTRALIA. 



No. 



Name. 



Locality where found. 



2 



Beeyis. 







Aquamarines, in hexagonal crystals, and 



Cape Barren Island. 





-water-TTorn (one weighing 317 grains) . 



Mount G-reenock, South 

 Austraha. 



11 



Peaels. 







White, pink, blue, green, grey, yellow. 



Coast oif Western Australia. 





black, from 69 grains downwards. 





7 



Amethysts. 



Orens District, Victoria. 





In hexagonal crystals. 



New England, New South 

 Wales. 



15 



Moon Stoics. 



Ovens District, Victoria. 



2 



Noble Opais. 



Listowel Downs, and 

 Springsure, Queensland. 



2 



Caien-goems. 







Smoky quartz, and yellow, or false Topaz. 



Ovens Disti'ict, Victoria. 

 New England, New South 

 Wales. 



* Note. — For some years it was doubted whether the genuine Oriental Ruby had been 

 detected in Australian ground. The Rev. Dr. Bleasdale and Mi-. Foord, of Melbourne, 

 both of whom are competent authorities, had assured me that the true Ruby had been 

 broujrht under their notice, but I had myself not seen one ; though I had discovered the 

 Spinelle Ruby (Red Spinelle) now exhibited, in the well-known hemitrope octahedral- 

 crystal, in the Tin Sands, at the Ovens District, in Victoria ; and at the Peel River, in New 

 South Wales. The specific gravity of this gem is 3'575, and its hardness = S ; as given by Dana. 

 Hence I gladly secured for my Cabinet the fine Oriental Ruby (weighing over 3 carats, as cut 

 in London), and the smaller specimens in their natural state from Mudgee District, New 

 South Wales. The specific gravity of this cut stone I have purposely noted ; being so much 

 higher than that of the Spinelle, as it is also one degree harder in the scale, viz., = 9. This 

 ought to set the question at rest for ever ; especially as so many other Rubies from the same 

 locality are in the possession of connoisseurs and the Trade. 



A vast number of foreign precious stones are also exhibited in the Cabinet, 

 for purposes of comparison, viz., — Diamonds from Brazil ; Emeralds from 

 Grranada ; Eubies, and Sapphires, and Spinelles, in perfect crystals (hexagonal 

 and octahedral, hemi- tropes, and twins), and Zircons from Ceylon; Topazes 

 from India and Brazil ; Amethysts from Siberia, &c., &c. Also Native Gold, 

 in octahedral and dodecahedral crystals, from Ballaarat, Victoria ; and in 

 Antimony, Gralena, Ox. of Iron, Granite, Sandstone, vesicular, and common 

 Quartz. 



