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ISLAND OF PAROS. 
Formerly it was employed in the manufacture of 
ear-rings and bracelets in England; and buttons 
are yet made of it in Birmingham, which have, 
for a short time, almost the lustre of real 
brilliants. 
ArriraUt At eight o'clock A.M. October the nineteenth, 
PAROS. 
we found our vessel entering the harbour of 
NAUSS A l , at the northern extremity of the Isle 
" To ascertain all the circumstances under which it occurs, was the 
principal object of ray excursion hither ; and the following is the result 
of my observations : 
" The emery occurs, in scattered fragments, over the whole surface of 
this district, but more abundantly in the bed of the winter torrent 
which runs through the Vale of Triangatho. I remarked, that the 
fragments were largest, where they were fewest, on the upper slopes of 
the hills ; and that they diminished in size, but augmented in number, 
as they occurred lower down. 
" The proximity of these fragments to the micaceous strata, their 
lamellous form and granular mass, together with the frequent admix- 
ture of mica, indicated their native bed to have been originally in that 
rock. No search, however, had been made by digging ; a sufficient 
quantity for the annual consumption of Europe being collected, with- 
out difficulty, on the surface. The sole expense, therefore, is that 
which is occasioned by the transport of the emery to the water-side. 
" Three caiques, or Greek barks, load here annually for Smyrna; from 
whence, in the year 1787, 107 tons of emery-stones were exported to 
England. 
" The best sort of emery, as I have already observed, is found at 
Triangatho : a sort less esteemed, at Agaso t three hours and a half, 
south, from the town of Naxiu; and at Leona, on the north coast." 
Hawkins' MS. Journal. 
(l) See the Vignette to this Chapter. This must be the Porto Ausa 
of Dapper. (Descript. des Isles de I'Archipel, p. 261. Amst. 1703.) 
Toumefovt 
