Book excerpt: Excerpt from All About Gold, Gems, and Pearls (Also Minerals Generally) In Ceylon and Southern India: Compiled by the Publishers, From a Variety of Available Authorities To make the brochure complete, we next resolved to reprint information respecting the Minerals and Geology generally of the island; giving special papers on Plumbago, the only mineral of commercial importance so far included in our export trade; and finally, in order to round off the list of precious things for which Lanka and Serendib have been famous from time immemorial, we have added the story of our Pearl Fisheries, with all the facts and figures at our disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.