Leisure hours among the gems

by Augustus C. Hamlin

P.

• Passion for gems, etc., [280], [281].
• Paulina, gems of, [288].
• Peacock Throne, [210].
• Peligot’s views on ancient glass, [352].
• Persian emblems of authority, [287].
• treasures, [214]-[216].
• Peruzzi, inventor of the brilliant, [251].
• Peysonnel, [72].
• Phidias, [369].
• Philip of Spain, [170], [196].
• wedding of, [197].
• Pictet, [71].
• Piggot diamond, [187].
• Pitt, Wm., and Regent diamond, [164], [165].
• Placidia, marriage of, [123].
• Plato’s views on gems, [73].
• Pliny’s views on gems, [15], [285], [287], [288], [328], [330], [331], [368], [369], [414].
• Plumbago, or graphite, [16], [18].
• Plunder of Delhi, [204].
• Polariscope, [261].
• Poles, customs of, [134].
• Polycrates, ring of, [116], [288].
• Pompadour’s jewels, [174].
• Pompey, [130].
• ring of, [290].
• Pope Julius II., beryl of, [319].
• Potemkin, gems of, [154].
• Potemkin’s plume, [145].
• Priest’s treasury in the Kremlin, [141].
• Prince Esterhazy jewels, [212], [229].
• Prismatic display of the diamond, [92], [93], [96]-[98].

Q.

• Queen Caroline, jewels of, [196].
• Elizabeth, jewels of, [197].
• Mary, jewels of, [196].

R.

• Raleigh, Walter, dress of, [198].
• Ralph Potter, lapidary, [243].
• Rambusson’s remarks on ruby mines, [403].
• Ramusso, Venetian historian, [130].
• Ranee Ruthen’s diamond, [218].
• Ratnapoora, sapphire mines of, [372], [374].
• Ravenna, capture of, [125].
• Refractive power of gems, [259]-[262].
• Regale of France, gem, [199].
• Regalia of Charlemagne, [226].
• England, [179].
• France, [158].
• Russia, [132].
• Regent diamond, [161], [165].
• Richelieu’s wreath, [160].
• Ring of Ahmed, [116].
• Polycrates, [116].
• Rohan, Cardinal de, [174].
• Rome, triumphs of, [119].
• Romè de L’Isle, description of diamond, [222].
• Rose-colored diamonds, [228].
• Rose diamonds, Antwerp form, [244], [251].
• Holland form, [244], [251].
• Round brilliant, [222].
• Royalston, locality of beryls, [311]-[313], [315].
• Ruby, lustre of the potters of Umbria, [325].
• of Crown of Persia, [407].
• Crown of Russia, [407].
• East India Company, [407].
• King of Burmah, [406].
• Prince of Wales, [180], [406].
• price of, [427].
• seen by Garcia, [407].
• Runjeet Singh gems, [206]-[208].

S.

• Sacred standard of Persia, [23].
• vestments, [127].
• Sacro catino—emerald dish, [323].
• Saffragan sapphire mines, [374].
• Sancy diamonds, [166]-[171].
• Sapphire, [365].
• black variety, [417].
• carved by the Hindoos, [397].
• colors of, [394], [398], [411]-[420].
• composition and characters of, [387], [400].
• deposition of, [377]-[384], [389].
• engraved, [405], [412], [417]-[424].
• formation of, in Ceylon, [384], [385].
• imitations of, natural and artificial, [424], [425].
• Sapphire, mines of, [372], [378], [379], [388]-[390].
• Ava, [401].
• Bengal, [393].
• Bohemia, [393].
• Burmah, [400]-[403].
• Ceylon, [400]-[403].
• China, [408].
• Colorado, [392].
• Montana, [390], [391].
• North Carolina, [388], [411].
• Siam, [403].
• red, known as Oriental ruby, [398]-[400], [403]-[408], [424], [426].
• refraction of, [98].
• roof of the Parthian Palace, [397].
• varieties, early known, [367].
• Sapphires of the French Crown, [395], [397], [399], [411], [412].
• Hungarian Crown, [396].
• King of Ava, [402].
• Miss Coutts, [396], [398].
• the Russian casket, [397].
• price of, [425]-[427].
• Sapphirus, [368].
• Sarmatia, ancient, [133].
• Sassanian kings, [23], [25].
• Saxon white brilliant, [223].
• Saxony, Elector of, gems, [224].
• Sceptre of Vladimir, [138].
• School of Mines, St. Petersburg, [145].
• Scythian incursions, [133].
• Selwyn’s views of gold deposits, [77].
• Serena, [121].
• Shah Jehan, [202], [209], [210], [218].
• Nasiru’d-din of Persia, [216].
• Soujah, [207].
• Shrine of Thomas à Becket, [199].
• Siberian beryls, [313]-[315].
• Silicified trees, [347].
• Sinan Pasha, jewels of, [117].
• Sir Stamford Raffles, [36], [218].
• Smith, J. Laurence, discovers Hiddenite, [310].
• Sokolli, gems of, [117].
• Sorel, Agnes, necklace of, [177].
• Soujah and the Kohinoor, [207].
• Spanish Conquest of Mexico and Peru, [292].
• Specific gravity of diamonds, [87].
• emerald, [308].
• opal, [336].
• sapphire, [387].
• Spiritual properties of gems, [104].
• St. Chapelle of Paris, [127], [128].
• St. Laurent, views of, [239].
• St. Mark’s Palace, [127], [130].
• St. Melania, [121].
• St. Sophia, mosque of, [129].
• Stamboul, [130].
• Star of the South, [41], [223].
• Stewart diamond, [55].
• Sultan of Mattan diamond, [36].
• Sumnat, idol and temple of, [209], [220].
• Superstitious fancies about gems, [362].
• Suvaroff gems, [98], [144], [156].
• Sword of Solyman, [107].
• Symes’s visit to Ava, [217].
• Symes’s, Col., visit to Burmah, [401].

T.

• Table of Solomon, [326].
• Taj Mahal, palace tomb, [218], [219], [408].
• Talasca, standard of, [293].
• Tavernier, the traveller, [27], [30], [34], [66], [67], [150], [154], [163], [182], [202], [203], [205], [213], [227], [238], [246], [251], [272], [387], [404], [406].
• Telesie, a name proposed by Abbé Haüy, [371].
• Tennant, Prof., [40], [179].
• Theophrastus, [25], [368].
• Thiers, Madame, necklace of, [178].
• Throne of Nadir Shah, [107].
• Russia, [140].
• Throne of Takdis, [23].
• Turkey, [107].
• Timour, Fêtes of, [114].
• spoils of, [114], [186].
• Tiridates and the Parthian nobles, [120].
• march to Rome, [121].
• Titus and the spoils of Jerusalem, [124].
• Tomb of Mahomet, [409].
• Topaz, [95], [98], [145], [425].
• Tourmaline, [97], [99], [145], [310], [326], [408], [425], [427].
• tongs, [260].
• Tournament of the cloth of gold, [192].
• Townley collection of gems, [288].
• Treasury of the Seraglio, [107], [118].
• Troitza, treasury of, [147].
• Tschudi, Prof., [86].
• Turkish casket of jewels, [106].
• Turquoise of Mexico, [292].
• Persia, [216].