These agates perfectly resemble the Soane pebbles, and they assist in the identification of these flanking hills with those of the latter river.
The stream is celebrated for its agates (Soane pebbles), which are common, but gold is not now obtained from it.
She has gathered from around her home agatesand moss agates and pebbles of all colors.
The agates in this region, first discovered in 1827, so surpass in size and beauty those from any other known locality, that they form at the present time almost the only source of supply.
The layered structure of agates is due to successive depositions of silica by water flowing through cavities in rocks.
Agates are not used as extensively as they once were for ornamental purposes.
The industry of cutting and polishing the agates on a large scale was soon established there, and these places are to this day the center of the agate industry.
The discovery that the attractiveness of agates could be enhanced by artificial coloring was made about the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The beautiful moss-like inclusions seen in the moss agates are due to a partial crystallization of oxide of manganese or iron contained in the waters.
While many of these agates are of great beauty, their use and sale is not likely to be anything more than local, since the Brazilian agates can be supplied so cheaply from Germany.
This and neighboring localities continued to be the source of supply until the fifteenth century, when agates were found to occur in large quantities near Oberstein and Idar on the banks of the river Nahe, in the duchy of Oldenburg.
On account of their beauties of color and outline, agates have been known and prized from the earliest times.
The moss agates of Colorado and other localities in the Rocky Mountains are, however, equal to anything in the world.
The different colors seen in the natural agates are produced by traces of organic matter or of oxides of iron, manganese or titanium contained in the waters which formed them.
Agates of considerable beauty, though not of great size, are found in many places in the United States.
Agates are found in the beds of many streams in Colorado, Montana and other regions of the Rocky Mountains.
We can thus understand why agates should be found, as they usually are, on sea or lake beaches, or in the beds of streams.
It was difficult to believe that he ever climbed or dug or dived for agates as Marie had said, so complete a picture he seemed of inaction.
The beautiful lines comparing a girl's eyes to bottom agates that seem to "Wave and float In crystal currents of clear running seas," he invented while bathing in Wales.
He had hunted, trapped, prospected and searched for agates for fifty years, and it was well into the night before he had told me all about it.
There was a delicate and subtle compliment in his handsome admission that he felt that his was the greater wrong, even allowing for the fact that there were still two or three moss agates missing when he finally checked over the tray.
The trade inagates has been carried on from early times at Cambay, where the stones are cut and polished.
The Brazilian agates lend themselves readily to coloration, while the German agates are much less receptive.
Agates of exceptional beauty often pass in trade under the name of Oriental agate.
In India agates occur abundantly in the amygdaloidal varieties of the Deccan and Rajmahal traps, and as pebbles in the detritus derived from these rocks.
Many of the hollowagates of Brazil and Uruguay contain a crop of amethyst-crystals in the interior.
They are agates derived from the andesitic lavas of Old Red Sandstone age, chiefly in the Ochils and the Sidlaws.
For agates in general see Max Bauer's Precious Stones, translated by L.
Leaving Mount Washburn, with its summit piles of basalt, and its precipitous slope scattered with agates and beautiful fragments of sardonyx, chalcedony, and malachite, let us descend to the valley.
Further up the eastern shore are pebbly beaches strewn with agates cornelians, and chips of chalcedony.
I wish to inform my correspondents to whom I am indebted that, owing to the fact that exchanges arrived in such quantities, I disposed of my stock of agates and amethysts in a much shorter time than I anticipated.
My sister Nan and I have fun hunting flowers, and moss-agates and other stones.
The Germans were, indeed, familiar with the processes employed in polishing the surfaces of hard stones, especially of their nativeagates (as in the Hunsrueck district).
In one corner of the room stood a baseball bat with a catcher's glove, and there on the little stand by the window was a box all full of marbles, "glassies" and agates and many other kinds.
Flints and agates abound in the Ona country, and these with the ore and a bit of dry fungus, always carried wrapped in a bit of hide or a bladder, enable the Ona to light a fire even in a rain-storm.
It exhibits evidences of broken-down amygdaloids, which not only furnish a part of its pebbles, but also of the contents of this stratum, in numerousagates and other subspecies of the quartz family which are found scattered over the surface.
These agates are chiefly arranged in concentric layers, which are white, red, yellow, &c.
The women who were dipping water saw that the water which ran from their bodies were agates which had no holes.
The water which dropped from their bodies became agates which have no holes through them, and the women who were dipping water saw the agates which dropped from their bodies and they touched each other and said, "Look at that.
The gravel which they used to wash the pottery with was all agates which have no holes through them.
When they put down their quids, they laid in good order as agates with no holes in them.
The name, "Mocha stone," sometimes applied to moss agates is either due to the fact that those first used came from Mocha in Arabia, or it is a corruption of the word moss agate.
Moss agates are found in numerous localities in the States of Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana.
Agents and prospectors are sent all over the world to procure agates and other ornamental stones, and enormous quantities are brought there and stored.
The industry began here in consequence of the abundance of agates in the amygdaloid rocks of the vicinity; and it is probable that many of the Cinque Cento gems, and perhaps even some of the Roman ones, were obtained in this region.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
