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Updated: May 2, 2025
For this here was wholly in compartments of precious stones, all in their natural colours: one of red jasper, most charmingly spotted; another of ophites; a third of porphyry; a fourth of lycophthalmy, a stone of four different colours, powdered with sparks of gold as small as atoms; a fifth of agate, streaked here and there with small milk-coloured waves; a sixth of costly chalcedony or onyx-stone; and another of green jasper, with certain red and yellowish veins.
Many of them were placed around lovely fountains, or urns of flowers. But I want to tell of one very beautiful and costly kind of ornament that is made from some conch-shells, pronounced "konk." Romans and Greeks, but especially the Greeks, used to cut "cameos" from the onyx-stone.
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