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Ch. 5: The Great Mogul Diamond

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THE GREAT MOGUL.
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Mirgimola presented to Aurung-zeb, as I have else­where said, had been taken from this mine."
Lastly, the third passage occurs in his account at p. 305 of all the large gems he had anywhere seen. At the head of the list he places the diamond under consideration as " the heaviest of which I have had any knowledge. This diamond belongs to the Great Mogul, who did me the honour of showing it to me with all his other jewels. The form is shown in which it remained after being cut, and having been permitted to weigh it, I found that it weighs 319-1/2 ratis, which make 279-9/10 of our carats. In the rough state it weighed, as I elsewhere said, 907 ratis, which make 793§ carats. This stone presents the form of an egg cut in half."*
The last passage in this paragraph explains the statement made by Brock, and frequently repeated by others, that this stone " was about as big as a hen's egg-" But Tavernier does not compare its size to that of a hen's egg, but only says that in form it resembled
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