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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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s as a people was the gathering, thewearing, the exhibition, and the com.merce in precious stones. All this im-parted much of the Oriental character toIndian civilization. The nabob of to-day has many traits which depend, ifnot for their existence, at least for theirmanifestation, on the presence in hiscountry of precio^is mines, with thetreasures of which he maintains hisgrandeur and pride. It was this formof barbaric magnificence which contrib-uted to Miltons pictured page one of hisgorgeous images: High on a throne of ro^al state which farOutshone the wealth of Ormus and of hid. The attention of the reader has beencalled to the fact that iron is the last ofthe great metals now in use to be discov-ered and extracted from the matrix. 714 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The forbidding and refractory characterof the ore impeded the manufacture ofiron until long- after the other metals the most useful of the metals. Ironmines abound in all parts of India.There is scarcely a district between the
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UIAMOND MINE OF PUNNAH that exist in the native state had beenbrouarht out and employed The-working of ^ • i • iron originated in the arts. It was in thisin India. ^^^^ ^^ j^^.^ ^^^^ the Ar- yan race first succeeded in mastering thedifficulties in the way and brought forth n by Emile Bayard. mountains of Assam and the southernparts of Madras in which mines are notabundant. The ore is purer than thatof almost any other region in the earth.It is this circumstance, together with theantiquity and ingenuity of the race, that THE INDICANS.—RESOURCES. 715 lias made India the first country of theworld in which iron has been manufac-tured. The indigenous method of smeltingthe ore is still preserved. The very-Method of same processes which weresmeituig and employed at the beginning ■excellence of J^ - g fc» product. of the historical era are still in vogue. The great drawbackupon the success of the method employedis the wasteful consumption ofcharcoal. Where iron is smeltedin the open

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