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 the Pearl. It is not of a pellucid Nature, but Bracelets, and other Ornaments of great Value are made of it. It is produced in a kind of Oyter, and, in like manner, in the Pinna marina; and is found in the Indies, and on the Shores of certain Ilands in the Red Sea.