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DAMASCUS.
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in jewellery are simply provided with cabinets, on the top of which the treasures may be
exhibited (see page 393), but the dealer does not generally keep his jewellery exposed. He
holds a trinket or two in his hand, and endeavours by signs or invocations to attract the
attention of passers-by. As soon as any one pauses as if inclined to purchase, he is
THE LARGE PLANE-TREE, DAMASCUS.
It is nearly forty feet in circumference. A peasant and his plough are resting against it, and in its shade a carpenter is working, steadying his
bow saw with his naked foot.
invited to mount on to the platform, and then it is that the treasures are turned out of the
smaller cabinets, one drawer of which contains perhaps a collection of badly-cut diamonds,
and some uncut rubies and emeralds; another drawer may be filled with seed pearls
and two or three "pearls of great price." There is sure to be a stock of turquoise rings
407
in jewellery are simply provided with cabinets, on the top of which the treasures may be
exhibited (see page 393), but the dealer does not generally keep his jewellery exposed. He
holds a trinket or two in his hand, and endeavours by signs or invocations to attract the
attention of passers-by. As soon as any one pauses as if inclined to purchase, he is
THE LARGE PLANE-TREE, DAMASCUS.
It is nearly forty feet in circumference. A peasant and his plough are resting against it, and in its shade a carpenter is working, steadying his
bow saw with his naked foot.
invited to mount on to the platform, and then it is that the treasures are turned out of the
smaller cabinets, one drawer of which contains perhaps a collection of badly-cut diamonds,
and some uncut rubies and emeralds; another drawer may be filled with seed pearls
and two or three "pearls of great price." There is sure to be a stock of turquoise rings