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Ch. 11: Home of the Diamond

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	210	PRECIOUS STONES.

	quoted, as well as for the refutation of what is erroneous, it may be stated that the firm of Tiffany and Company, during the last year (18S5), imported a collection of diamonds in the rough, including 882 specimens, weighing in the aggregate about 1775 carats, besides a number enclosed in the diamond-bearing rock, increasing the list to 904 specimens, representing 1876 carats. The collection embraces diamonds of various colors,— pure white, bluish-white, grayish-white, white with yellow spots, light and deep brown, different shades of green, smoky, gray, rose, reddish, yellow, and black. A large part of these stones are of small size, though several specimens exceed ten carats in weight, including a white diamond with striated faces, weighing nearly twelve carats, a smoke-brown exceeding fiftyseven, another brown gem of more than eleven carats, a fine yellow of twenty, a white twin octahedral of more than fifteen, besides several specimens of bort and diamond conglomerates weighing individually from nearly forty-nine carats to more than one hundred and sixteen. A small number of the collection were obtained from Brazil, and the remainder from South Africa.

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