[177] Murray’s China, Edinburgh, 1843, Vol. III., p. 276; compare also an article on this stone by M. Blondel, of Paris, published in the Smithsonian Report for 1876. Mémoires concernant les Chinois, Tome XIII., p. 389. Rémusat in the Journal des Savans, Dec., 1818, pp. 748 ff. Notes and Queries on C. and J., Vol. II., pp. 173, 174, and 187; Vol. III., p. 63; Vol. IV., pp. 13 and 33. Macmillan’s Magazine, October, 1871. Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. II., p. 564.
[178] Nephrit und Jadeit, nach ihren mineralogischen Eigenschaften sowie nach ihrer urgeschichtlichen und ethnographischen Bedeutung. Heinrich Fischer, Stuttgart, 1880. An exhaustive treatise on every phrase and variety of the mineral.
[179] Obtained from Badakshan. Wood, Journey to the Oxus, p. 263.
[180] Geological Researches in China, Chap. X.
[181] Humboldt, Fragmens Asiatiques, Tome I., p. 196. Annales de la Foi, Janvr., 1829, pp. 416 ff.
[182] Breton, China, its Costumes, Arts, etc., Vol. II.
[183] Bridgman’s Chinese Chrestomathy, p. 469.
[184] Chinese Repository, Vol. VII., p. 90.
[185] Zoöl. Soc. Proc., 1870, p. 626.
[186] Borget, La Chine Ouverte, p. 147.