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THE Garnet as talisman. Garnets are found in many varieties, each being described by a special name ; the Bohemian Garnet is a deep red, whilst the Cinnamon stone usually has its colour varied by a tinge of orange ; Almandines have a violet hue and take their name from Alabanda, a town in [...] The chief of these are the garnets, crystallising in the cubic system, and anhydrous. The garnet is usually in the form of a rhombic dodecahedron, or as a trisoctahedron (called also sometimes an icosatetrahedron), or a mixture of the two, though the stones appear in other cubic forms. In hardness they vary from [...] |
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