The history and poetry of finger-rings

by Charles Edwards

[175] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, p. 246.

[176] A Lapidary, or the History of Pretious Stones, with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious stones, (1652,) p. 51.

[177] This name occurs among the ancients, because it is the mother-dwelling or the palace, as it was said, in which the carbuncle or true ruby is produced and dwells.—Kobell, 274.

[178] Lib. viii. de Hist. Animal.

[179] Kobell.

[180] Nicols’ Lapidary, 56-7.

[181] Paus. viii, c. 14.

[182] The Imperial Treasury at Vienna possesses an emerald valued at £50,000.

[183] Nicols’ Lapidary, 85.

[184] And see Kobell’s Mineral Kingdom, 274.