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Ch. 3: Famous Diamonds

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CELEBRATED DIAMONDS.
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diamond, finely formed, and of the first water, with three table-cut diamonds, two clear, and one having little black points. Each one of these weighed from 48 to 50 carats; and the first 54-1/2 carats. He then showed me a trinket consisting of twelve dia­monds all roses, and each one weighing from 13 to
14 carats. In the midst was a heart-shaped rose, of first water, with three little flaws: this rose weighed 35 carats."
One of the most celebrated diamonds is that of the Rajah of Mattan, in Borneo. It was found on that island, and weighs 318 carats.1 It is shaped
1 Other accounts make the weight of this diamond 367 carats.
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