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Ch. 2: Diamonds

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A TREATISE ON
given for valuing them in proportion to their size and weight, which will be found here­after exhibited; and if the use and appli­cation of them were conformable to the production of nature, the rules thus found­ed and prescribed, would never be inter­rupted : and, therefore, if the humour of the world demands, at any time, more or less of any particular sizes and weights than nature provides, the price obtruded thereby must be reckoned the occasional, and not the just price, and complied with as such; which happens to be the case at present, by the extraordinary use of small diamonds in the decorations now fashionable in jewelling. And as the price of these small diamonds will always fluctuate by the alterations of fashions, little regard will be had in this treatise to any, under the weight of one carat.
It may be also observed, that the value of rough diamonds, from two to three carats, and also of polished diamonds, from one to one and a half, does not correspond with the rules hereafter laid down ; the price at pre­sent being lower than what is asserted by
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