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Show Turquoise the Stone of the East. The best tuMiuolscu are found In tho celebrated N'lshaptir mines In Persia, In which district aro two whole villages vil-lages Inhnhltcd by turquoise miners, who work nt a depth of eighty or ninety feet below the ground, breaking the rock with hammers. Upon a lur-(juolse lur-(juolse being discovered, It Is laid aside In its rough state, and afterwards after-wards extracted from Its matrix by nn elaborate method Besides these mines, there are others known as khaki (earth) mines, In which tho gems are found In loose soil, two or three fett below the surface. No Oriental, however poor, but manages to become possessed of a turquoise, even If it Is only In a tin setting. |