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Tor Rubies , lie difcourfes alfo of the Places , where they are 
found 5 and of their Price. The places 3 are, the Kingdom of 
Pegu , and the Me of Ceylon whence very few are fufFeredtobe 
carried away. The Price is , that a good Rubi of the weight of 
i Rati (which is \ of a Carat') is efteemed at 20 old Pagodes in 
India x each Pagode being about 10 /hillings Englijh, 
Rat is. Pagodes . 
Of 2 
is valued at 100. 
Of 3 
250. 
-Of 4 
500. 
Of 5 
90 o. 
Of 6 
* 15C0. 
Of 7 
2300. 
Of 12 ' 
1 2000 o 
Concerning Turquois , they are found in Perfidy in the Province 
of Cbamaquay , North of ifpaban , in two Mines, called the old 
and the New Rock. T hefe of the New, are of anill whiti/h Blew; 
but thofe of the old , are not fuffered to be digged out , but by the 
King of Perfia himfelf. 
Emeraulds are affirm’d by him , never to be found in the Eaft- 
Tndies , but in Perou , whence they were carried by that Trading 
People to the Moluccas , even before America was difcovered by 
the Europeans \ ; andfo they come from the Orient *, of much lets 
value , than they were formerly , by reafon of their commonnefs. 
T he Author notes , that Emeraulds grow in ftones , juft as Chry- 
ftals , forming a t^ein , in which they are by little and little refined 
and thickned : and that fome of them are feen , half white and 
half green •, others, all white 5 and others all green and perfed. 
To Pearls he affigns in the Orient , four places, where they are 
fiflied : The Ifle of Babarem in the Perfian Gulf: The Coaft of 
Arabia Felix , near the Town of Cat if 5 over againft Babarem: 
The Me of Ceylon about Manor ; The Me of Japan. The beft 
a t Ceylon^ but fmall; thebiggeftat Japan > but uneven. In the 
V/e ft -Indies they are Bfh’d in the North- Sea , in theMes of Mar- 
guerite, Cubagva , St. Marthe % and at Comana , and Comammte 3 
tor the Continent $ and in the South-Sea 3 near Panama : which 
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