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Show Turquolso the Stone of the East. The best turquoises nro found in the celebrated Nlshnpur mines in Persia. In which district nro two wholo villages vil-lages Inhabited by turquolso miners, who work at a depth of eighty or, nlroty feet below tho ground, broaklng tho rock with hammers. Upon a tur quolso bolng' discovered, it is laid nsldo In Its rough state, and after wards extraoted from Its matrix by an elaborate mo' 'mil. Desldcs these mines, there aro othors known as khaki (earth) mlnos, In which tho gems aro found in loose soli, two or threo feet bolow tho surface No Oriental, however poor, but manages to becomo possessed of a turquoise, sven if It Is only In a tin setting. |