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PLATE II.
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The most remarkable rough Diamonds.
No. 1.—The Nizam, from India; it weighs 340 carats, is valued at five millions of francs, and belongs to the King of Golconda.
No. 2.—The great rough Diamond, as described by Tavernier, from India, weighing 282| carats.
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3.—The great South Star, from Brazil, weight when rough 254| carats,
was found in the mines of Begagem, in the province of Minas Geraes, in
Brazil. It is as clear as water, slightly tinged with yellow; it is
valued at two and a half millions of francs; it is thirty millimetres
in height, forty in length, and twenty-seven in breadth. Its shape is a
twelve-faced rhomboid, presenting altogether twenty-four triangles.
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