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Ch. 1: Introduction

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2                         INTRODUCTION.
both under all circumstances, whatever be their weight and magnitude; and, likewise, for manufacturing diamonds to the greatest perfection. And apprehending that I have fully succeeded—for the promotion of the commerce, and for the benefit of the pub­lic, I have exhibited, in this treatise, means by which the inquisitive may attain to a right knowledge in these matters; and more especially concerning those from one carat weight, to those of one hundred carats.
The plates of the sizes of diamonds, and the tables of the prices of both, are ex­tended no farther than to diamonds and pearls of that weight. They might be carried on ad infinitum; and the rule of valuing will hold good, though they should weigh as much as Governor Pitt's diamond, purchased by the Regent Duke of Orleans
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