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Panama Pearl-Diver

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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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PEARLS AND GEMS. THERE is no decay to gems. The jewelsthat were buried under the burning lava,and for twenty centuries lav in darkness beneath
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PANAMA TEAEL-DIVEE. the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, or withmouldering mummies in the tombs of Egyptfor three thousand years, now gleam with theiroriginal splendor upon the shelves and in thecases of a hundred museums to testify their im-perishable value. Though the cutting and polishing ofdiamonds is r^n art of but recent date—having been discovered by Louis deBerghens, of Bruges, in 1476—yet theengraving and cutting of other gemswas known to the ancients. Numerousinstances of their skill are preserved tothe present day. The Eg)^ptians firstcut upon cornelians and agates, and, tenor twelve centuries before the Christianera, reached a beauty of workmanshipnot since surpassed. From Egypt theart spread into other lands. It is sup-posed that Moses carried with him intoPalestine workers in the craft, who aft-erward became famous, and left behindthem evidences of their skill. TheGreeks and the Phoenicians, and, infact, all the then enlightened na-tions of the world, sought Eg)ptia

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