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Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5

Note 95 — Of PEARLS.

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See Proverbs, chap. xxxi. verse 10. But in Job, where all the variety of precious stones are mentioned, the translator is forced, as it were unwillingly, to render Peninim pearls, as he ought indeed to have done in many other places where it occurs. Job, chap. xxviii. verse 18.

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