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Technically, chrysolite is synonymous with the precious stone peridot, or olivine its tint is a yellowish green. But probably Shelley thought only of the primary meaning of the word chrysolite, 'golden-stone, and his phrase as a whole comes to much the same thing as 'a cloud with a golden lining. +Stanza 6,+ 1. 1. And like a sudden meteor.
"A basaltic peridot," I said. "It can't be very interesting, you barely glanced at it." "It is very interesting, on the contrary. But, for the moment, I admit that I am otherwise preoccupied." "How?" "Look this way a bit," I said, showing towards the west, on the horizon, a black spot across the white plain. It was six o'clock in the morning. The sun had risen.
Our sportsmen gave chase to ten emus and a kangaroo on Albinia Downs: but the rottenness of the ground prevented their capture: rather tantalizing to hungry stomachs! I examined the basaltic rock on several spots, and found that it contained numerous crystals of Peridot. The sand in the bed of the river contains very minute particles of igneous rock.
I examined it yesterday evening, so that it is certain that this has happened during the night." It was, as he had said, obvious that someone had been at work upon it. The settings of the uppermost row of four stones the carnelian, peridot, emerald, and ruby were rough and jagged as if someone had scraped all round them.
Peridot are cheaper, I think, at home, and certainly in Cairo, and the only amethysts worth looking at are sent out from Germany. The pale ones of the country come from Jaipur. By-the-bye, the best-coloured amethysts I ever remember seeing were in Clermont Ferrand. Delhi has always been connected with gems in my mind. I am not certain why.
Both these mountains are composed of basalt, containing numerous crystals of peridot. Dec. 8. I travelled with my whole party over the ground which I had reconnoitred yesterday, and had to go a considerable distance farther to find water.
He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamp-light, the cymophane with its wire-like line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wire-like line of silver, the pistachio-colored peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous four-rayed stars, flame- red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
Dutens and several others who have written upon gems and precious stones during the last two centuries have asserted that the ancients were unacquainted with the true emerald, and that Heliodorus, when speaking nearly two thousand years ago of "gems green as a meadow in the spring," or Pliny, when describing stone of a "soft green lustre," referred to the peridot, the plasma, the malachite, or the far rarer gem, the green sapphire.
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