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0311 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 311 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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says they do not seem now to be abundant. (Ib. I. 95; Alcock, I. 200.) No precious
stones are mentioned by Kaempfer.
Rose-tinted pearls are frequent among the Scotch pearls, and, according to
Mr. King, those of this tint are of late the most highly esteemed in Paris. Such
pearls were perhaps also most highly esteemed in old India; for red pearls
(Lohitamukti) form one of the seven precious objects which it was incumbent to use
in the adornment of Buddhistic reliquaries, and to distribute at the building of a
Dagoba. (Nat. Hist. of Prec. Stones, etc., 263; Kœppen, I. 541.)

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