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...sapphires and turquoise and amethysts, rubies, crystals, diamonds. But, the kinds greatest treasure was wondrous invention" a mechanized miniature forest perfect in every detail. Encased in a carved box, approximately two feet square , the little forest shone deep green in the sunlight. Dense sugar pines, elms, and walnut, apple, and pear trees clustered aroud the inner walls of the box.. The little tress had real, scratichy bark and birsled with leaves and beedles. Some Of the branches held tiny pine cones,walnuts, apples, and pears. Toward the inner part of the froest, the rees thinned, On the ground, amidst the scrubby brush, twigs, and fallen leaves, tiny animals rompled. A squirral dug among the leaves for nu...