HOW EMERY IS QUARRIED
Emery comes from the island of Naxos, in the Eastern Mediterranean, whence it has been exported for the last two centuries or more. The beds are in the north-east of the island. There are about 300 men engaged in the trade, all of whom have to be married before they are admitted to the fraternity. The material is much too hard to be dug out, or even blasted. Great fires are lighted round the blocks till the natural crahks expand with the heat, and levers are then inserted to prize them apart. This system is continued until the blocks are reduced in size to masses of a cubic foot or less, and they are then shipped as if they were coal. There are said to be 20,000,000 tons yen available in Naxos. It is one of the hardest substances known.
An auctioneer at Kells, County Meath ;*ayg an exchange), announces the sale by private treaty of a grassing farm on the Hill of Tara, which contains the banqueting hall of the Ard Righ of Tara, the King's chair—the old coronation chair of ancient
Erin —the Croppies Grove, and the celebrated Lia Fail, which contests with the stone under the coronation chair at Westminster the claim to be the original Stone of Destiny.
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Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 3
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216HOW EMERY IS QUARRIED Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 3
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