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Opal is a silicate fossil. It comes in "shells"--seashells originally, for this whole desert was once a vast inland sea--or more rarely in "pipes," or tubes, the fossilized backbones of archaic freshwater squid. The paradox of the stuff is that although it is so brilliantly colored, it has no color of its own. It's a solid diffraction grating, and the color you see is the light dispersed and reflecting through it. John Smart, the miner in whose mine we filmed, waxes reflective about this. "The opal's just a bloody illusion. It's as though...
...Venus, the Morning Star, burning in a deep violet sky. Nothing moves. No wind, no sound, only bitter cold. As the light begins to glow on the eastern horizon, you see an immense desert plain, flat as water--it is, in fact, the bed of an ancient inland sea. And it stretches without interruption, without a building or any other sign of human habitation, 2,000 miles to the northeast until it reaches the Arafura Sea, between Australia and Papua New Guinea...
...largest New England state, Maine, boasts both a beautiful, lighthouse-studed coastline and majestic inland mountain peaks. The AT terminates at Mt. Katahdin, and shoreline ports and Kennebunk and Bar Harbor draw thousands of visitors annually. Tourists also flock to Freeport to shop at L.L. Bean...
...Inland to the west of Salem, Lowell ($7 round trip on the Lowell line) was the first American city of the Industrial Revolution, and the now-restored facto...
...largest New England state, Maine, boastsboth a beautiful, lighthouse-studed coastline andmajestic inland mountain peaks...