A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Note 368 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 5)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

The Times reviewer of Mr. Emmanuel's book On Precious Stones, April 5, 1866, is in error in saying that "the zircon is known in trade as the jacinth or hyacinth".

The jargon, corindon or circon, which was much used in the xvi^th century, is not held in any estimation at the present time; it has the merit of possessing the hardness of the sapphire.

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