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Ch. 6: Illustrations, Index, Appendix

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PLATE VI.
The most celebrated out Diamonds.
No. 1.—The Grand Mogul; it weighs 279 carats, and is valued at twelve millions of francs.
No. 2.—The (Orlow, the great Russian Diamond, weighs 195 carats, and is the size of a pigeon's egg: cost two millions of francs and a pension of one hundred thousand francs.*
No. 3.—The table Diamond of Tavernier, weighing 242-1/2carats.
" 4.—The Polar Star, weighing 40 carats.
" 5.—The Shah, belonging to the Eussian crown, weighing 95 carats.
* It is on the top of the Russian sceptre, and has the form of a knob of a cane; the under surface is a plane.
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