# Leisure hours among the gems

Author: Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate), 1829-1905

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69560

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Leisure+hours+among+the+gems+Hamlin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The advice of Rabelais quoted on our titlepage indicates sound judgment, if not a glimmer of prophetic feeling; but we doubt very much whether the quaint philosopher had any conception of its extent and scope when he gave it. Could the queer, sceptical old fellow return to earth again after his long quiet sleep of almost four centuries, how astonished would he appear at the revelations of the students who have followed his suggestion during the last century even! And yet in reality how little has been revealed to the limited vision of man, compared with the vast resources of nature still unexplored and shrouded in mystery. In enumerating the precious stones among the works of nature worth...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leisure-hours-among-the-gems-69560/chapters/2/index.md)