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Ch. 16: Formation of the Diamond

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128 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
proved to have been the key that has unlocked the vast under­ground wealth of South Africa.1
" The story I have now to tell of its birthplace and subse­quent history will, I know, appear still more incredible, as fabu­lous indeed as was that of Sindbad, the Arabian voyager, who, with the talisman and magic lamp of Aladdin the Seer, unlocked the caverns of Africa's fairy land, and viewed in prophetic vision
the vast stores of buried treasures, — gold, diamonds, and other gems, —just as we see them now with our magic electric lamp a thousand feet down in the dark recesses of the extinct volcano, yielding millions of the purest gems upon earth.
" How came the diamond there in its hard blue matrix of ashes and lava, with its accompanying gems, — garnets, rubies, sapphires, agates, and other gems, — the products of solution and
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