HISTORICAL AND REMARKABLE DIAMONDS. 239
large diamonds and an equal number of pearls, for a jewel in
the turban of Baber, the first Mogul emperor.
The Star of Diamonds. —This brilliant title was won by the
resplendent appearance of the gem under the microscope,
when it exhibited a view resembling crests of mountains
illuminated by the most vivid colors of the rainbow. It is an
African stone, of one hundred and seven and one-half carats.
The Napoleon. — But little is known of this gem ; it is said
to have been worn by the emperor in the hilt of his sword at
his marriage with Josephine, though there is no mention of it
in the inventory of the crown jewels made in 1810.
A diamond brought from the East Indies by Hon. William
Hornby, Governor of Bombay, and called the Hornby Diamond, is supposed to belong to the Shah of Persia. The gem
known as the Antwerp Diamond, was sold in 1559» to Philip
II. of Spain, for eighty thousand crowns. One of the largest
diamonds found in Brazil was called the Patrochino.
The prolific mines of South Africa have yielded some
specimens of large size, and may, possibly, afford others which
will surpass any on record, but the greatest number of celebrated diamonds has, hitherto, been found in India. In a
paragraph of one of the public journals, it was stated that a
diamond of immense size had been recently shipped from
South Africa to England, which would afford a gem weighing
two hundred carats cut as a brilliant, or about three hundred
cut lozenge-shape.
In addition to those previously named from the South
African mines are The Tcnnant, so called for the late scientist
of this name, a diamond of a yellowish tint, weighing sixty-six
carats, and forming a brilliant ornament in the English regalia ; the Jagersfontein, an uncut gem, of two hundred and
nine and one-fourth carats ; Du Toit I., weighing two hundred
