COSMIC GEMS
RAREST IN THE WOELD
DISCOVERY IN LIBYAN
DESERT
LONDOX, Jnlv 9.
The rarest gems in the world, which experts believe have fallen from another planet, hence their; name of cosmic gems, have been discovered in the heart of the Libyan Desert by Mr. Patrick Gl«3'ton, who spent twelve years mapping 80,00J) suare miles of a region where neither whites nor Arabs had previously trodden.
The jewels are rather dull and clouded with yellow. Experts say that nothing like them has been seen, but they resemble somewhat Australian "Darwin glass s'-or Indo-Chinese tekites, yot are completely unlike them in distribution and size.
Mr. Clayton says that the deposits shine in the desert liko an opaque lake". They belong to the Egyptian Government. It is not known whether the Government will send an expedition to solve this scientific mystery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 8, 10 July 1934, Page 7
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