For JtMes^ he difcourfes alfo of the Plam , where tkey are 
founds and of their Price. The P/^w, are, the Kingdom of pe* 
gt4^ and the Ifle of Ceyhpt ; whence very few are fuffered to be 
carried away. The Ftice is^ that a good Eulfi of the weight of 
I Mati (which is J of a Carat) is efteemed at zoold Pagodcs 
in lndia^tz,z\i Pagode being about lo /hillings Englijh* 
Ratts. Pagodes, ^ 
of 2 is valued at loo. 
Of 3- — ^--250. 
Of 4 — - — ^ — 500. 
Of 5-— —-poo. 
Of ^ — —iToo. 
Of 7— — -2300. 
Of 12 — — 12000. 
Concerning Turquois^ they are found in P^ry?^, in the Province 
oi Champaquaj^'^onh of iffdhan, in two Mities, called the old 
snd the New Rock. Thcfcof the iV^M7,areof an ill whit^fli Blew-, 
but t^ofe of the arc not fuffered to be digged ouCjbut by the 
King of Perfta hinnfelf. 
Bmeraulds arc affirm'd by him, never to be found in the Ea[l- 
JnAies^ btit in Perou^ whence they were carried by chat Trading- 
People to the Moluccas y even before America was difcovered by 
the Europeans 5 and fo they come from the Orient^ of much 
lefs valuejthan they were formerly^by reafon of their commonnefs. 
The Author notes, that Bmeraulds grow in ftones;, juft as Chry- 
ftals, forming a Vein, in which they are by little and little refined 
and thickned; and that fome of them are feen^ half white and 
half green 5 others, all white; and others all green and perfed. 
To Pearls he afligns in the Orietft^ four places, where they are 
fiflied: The Ifle of Baharem in th» Per ftan Gulf : The Coaft of 
Arabia FelixyUQZt the fown of Catif^over againft Baharem-: The 
Ifle of Ceylon zhmt Manar: The Idc of ^apan. The beft at 
Ceylon^ hut fmall; the biggeft at ^///4^, bur uneven. " In the 
Wefl'lndies they are fifli'd in the North-Sea, in the Iflesof j1/4r- 
guerite^Cubagva^^t^Marthe-j and atComana^ and Comanagotey 
near the Continent and in the Sonth-fea^ near Panama : which 
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