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Show Turquoise the Stone of the East. Tho best tiircpiolses are found In tho celebrated Nlshapur mines In Persia, In which district aro two whole villages vil-lages Inhabited by turquolso minors, who work n: n depth of ulghty or ninety feet below tho ground, breaking the rock with hummers. Upon a turquoise tur-quoise being discovered, It Is laid asldo In Its rough state, and afterwards after-wards extracted from Us matrix hy an olaborate method Desldes theso mines. Micro hid othois known as khnkl (earth) mines, In which tho gems nro found lu loose soil, two or three feet below tho surface. No Oriental, however poor, but manages to become possessed of a turquoise, even If It Is only In n tin setting. |