Garnets

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by Caroline Stone

Nicolò de' Conti says the following about garnets in Ceylon:

"In the middle of the gulf (the Bay of Bengal) there is a very noble island called Zeilam (Ceylon), which is three thousand miles in circumference, and in which they find, by digging, rubies, sapphires, garnets, and those stones which are called cat's eyes."

- Nicolò de' Conti, translated in R. H. Major, India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India (London: Hakluyt Society, 1857), p. 7.
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