Bleeck, who visited the jade country of Upper Burma after Noetling, jadeite occurs at three localities in the Kachin Hills--Tawmaw, Hweka and Mamon.
Now that the mineral characters of jade are better understood, and its identification less uncertain, it may possibly be found with altered peridotites, or with amphibolites, among the old crystalline schists of many localities.
The important section on Chinese jade was contributed by Dr S.
The jade seems to occur as a rock in part of the Sajan mountain system.
The colour of jade presents various shades of green, yellow and grey, and the mineral when polished has a rather greasy lustre.
Meyer, of Dresden, always maintained that the European jade objects were indigenous, and his views have become generally accepted.
Kunz, was prepared in illustration of the famous jade collection made by Heber Reginald Bishop, and presented by him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Whilst the term jade is popularly used in this sense, it is now usually restricted by mineralogists to nephrite.
Nephrite occurs also in New Caledonia, and perhaps in some of the other Pacific islands, but many of the New Caledonian implements reputed to be of jade are really made of serpentine.
Dawson, arguing from the discovery of some boulders of jade in the Fraser river valley, held that they were not obtained by barter from Siberia, but were of native origin; and the locality was afterwards discovered by Lieut.
The occurrence of the Siberian jade has been described by Professor L.
The Jade Points are beautiful specimens, and may have been used for ceremonial purposes.
The Jade Points and Flints are very carefully wrought, and suggest rather the idea of selection as symbols than of ordinary warlike implements.
Since the detachment from China the Jade industry has ceased, the Musulmans having no taste for that kind of virtù.
The importation of Jade or Yü from this quarter probably gave the name of Kia-yü Kwan or "Jade Gate" to the fortified Pass looking in this direction on the extreme N.
The Jade of Turkestan is largely derived from water-rolled boulders fished up by divers in the rivers of Khotan, but it is also got from mines in the valley of the Karákásh River.
The Alashan Mountains stretch along the northern frontier, and the western extends to the Jade Gate (Yü Mên Kwan) on the border of the Desert of Gobi.
At Khotan, Jadeis polished up by sixty or seventy individuals belonging to twenty-five workshops.
Buddha sculptured in Jade was sent as an offering from Khotan; and in 632 the process of fishing for the material in the rivers of Khotan, as practised down to modern times, is mentioned.
Sven Hedin visited one of the chief places where Jade is to be found.
The Jadeof Khotan appears to be first mentioned by Chinese authors in the time of the Han Dynasty under Wu-ti (B.
It was a hall in which there was a jar of black jade, big enough to hold more than 30 piculs of wine; this jade had white veins, and in accordance with these veins, fish and animals have been carved on the jar.
Behind him rolled the moor, with the hollow where lay, water in a deep jade cup, the Kelpie's Pool.
I recollect that piece of Chinese jade she wore in Florence!
Then he added: "She wore only one ornament, a beautiful piece of apple-green jade suspended round her neck by a narrow black ribbon.
I was glad to see her there, and my wife mighty kind also, and for my part, much vexed that the jade is not with us still.
They went in and sat down, and the astrologer made some very complimentary remarks to Tseng, at which he fanned himself and smiled, saying, "Have I any chance of ever wearing the dragon robes and the jade girdle?
These I now send to you, with the jade lilies you gave me in their hats, in token of the sender.
Wang then released his bird and the prince's quail rushed at it at once; but when the Jade bird was close by, Wang's quail awaited its coming head down and full of rage.
Hosts of waiting-maids brought in profuse quantities of wine and meats, with bowls and cups of jade or gold, till the table glittered again.
He sent for a better bird, but that shared the same fate; and then he cried out, "Bring the Jade Bird from the palace!
They were a boy and girl, both very lovely, and wearing embroidered caps adorned withjade lilies.
The princess asked for some token of remembrance, and Ma gave her a pair of jade lilies that he had got during his stay in the marine kingdom.
This enraged it all the more, and it fought more violently than ever; but soon a perfect snowstorm of feathers began to fall, and, with drooping wings, the Jade bird made its escape.
In the palace there was a jade tree, about as big round as a man could clasp.
Thereupon, one of the guests sitting to the east came forward, and opening Ku's eyes with his fingers, touched them with some white ointment, which he applied from the end of a jade pin.
Didn't I see that jade exchanging glances with you just now?
Butterfly, connection of, withjade and soul in China, 193.
In China the custom of placing jade tongue amulets for the purpose of preserving the dead from decay and stimulating the soul to take flight to Paradise is of considerable antiquity.
Fate had provided better; and the blind jade Fortune had smiled on merit for once.
With the changing light, the river varies from silver to jade green.
And far down at the bottom winds the jade green ribbon of the Yellowstone.
He's been cruising about after jade and ruby mines one time and another, living among the people.
Jade celt, a polished stone weapon, from Livermore in Suffolk, 1/4 size.
But first I must find the home of the Genii, and get a pestle and mortar of jade for my future mother-in-law to pound her magic drugs in.
And they laughed until the snow-peaks shook beneath them; for the mortar made of jade was six feet high and four feet wide and the pestle was so heavy no mortal could lift it.
