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by the ice, and in 1899, Professor W. H. Hobbs, after a careful study
of the glacial stria? leading to the localities where the diamonds were
found, surmised that they came from somewhere near James Bay on Hudson
Bay. In 1876 a yellow diamond and some others were reported as found
near Eagle in Waukesha county. In 1886 a pale yellow irregular rhombic
dodecahedron weighing 2134 carats was found at Kohlsville in
Washington county, and in 1896 a diamond of over 6 carats was reported
as having been found at Saukville in Ozukee county in 1880. In 1893 one
of 3-7/8 carats was found at Oregon, Dane county, in clay. Another,
found in southern Wisconsin, which weighed over 16 carats, is now in
the J. Pierpont Morgan collection.
Several
diamonds have been found at various times in Morgan county, Indiana,
for one of which $1,200 was offered according to report. The amount
represented local sentiment, however, as the stone was not worth
nearly as much. Most of these stones were found while cleaning up
gold-washings. The first diamond found in America was found in Indiana
in 1837. It is a white stone and cut as a jewel, weighs about 2 carats.
It is claimed that diamonds with other precious stones have been found
in the hills of Brown county within 40 miles of Indianapolis.
Diamonds
have been found occasionally in the gold placer and platinum mines of
California since 1850, most of them in the neighborhood of Fiddletown
and Volcano in Amador county. They have been found also in Butte, El
Dorado, Nevada and Trinity counties. The first of which there is a good
record, came from the
