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SAPPHIRE.
transparent sapphire with a pale cloudy tinge, and exhibiting the appearance of a star with six radii, which sparkles with great brilliancy as its position is varied in the rays of the sun.
This gem, when extremely fine, is rare.—The best specimen known, I had the honor to sell for the private collection of his Majesty Louis XVIII.[1]
THE ORIENTAL RUBY
Is esteemed the most valuable of precious stones, and is supposed to differ from the Sapphire in color alone; the hardness, form of crystallization, and specific gravity, being very nearly the same[2].