GEMS

more commonly of irregular shapes and with a rough coat. The term gem often denotes more particularly a stone that is cut, polished, or enzraved, and it also includes pearls and various artificial productions. The first and most valuable cla of gems includes diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and a few others; the second cla includes the amethyst; topaz, garnet, etc.; ‘while agate, lapis lazuli, carnelian, ete., though much used for ornament, ean scarcely be epalled gems. The fabrication of artificial gems is now prosecuted with skill and has become an important art. instead of the old style black type, and the first which recognized the division into verses; it was the first also which omitted the Apocrypha. From its stating, in Gen. iii: 7, that our first parents made themselves “ breeches,” it is sometimes known as the Breeches Bible.