LEISURE HOURS AMONG THE GEMS

CRYSTAL OF SAPPHIRE
CEYLON
Exact size.
HAMLIN COLLECTION

BY
AUGUSTUS C. HAMLIN
AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON THE TOURMALINE FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NORTHERN EUROPE CHEVALIER OF ST. ANNE, ETC.

“Now in matter of the knowledge of the works of nature, I would have thee give thyself curiously; so that there be no sea, river, nor fountain of which thou dost not know the fishes; all the fowls of the air; all the metals that are hid within the bowels of the earth; together with the precious stones that are to be seen in the east and south of the world. Let nothing of all these be unknown to thee.”—Rabelais.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1891