Pink pearls are occasionally found.
Pearls are obtained from a species of this.
The usual material of medieval stoles was silk, and the better ones were embroidered with silk, gold thread, pearls, &c.
The celebrated Gascoigne's powder, which was sold as late as the middle of the 19th century in the form of balls like sal prunella, consisted of equal parts of crabs' eyes," the black tips of crabs' claws, Oriental pearls, Oriental bezoar and white coral, and was administered in jelly made of hart's horn, but was prescribed by physicians chiefly for wealthy people, as it cost about forty shillings per ounce.
Pearls are found off the southern coast of Madras and also in the Mergui archipelago.
