are
reported by him to have been found at some locality in Indiana. They
are perfect elongated hexoctahedrons of 2 carats each. The stones are
genuine diamonds, but the particulars of their occurrence and
discovery have not been obtained, and therefore nothing definite can be
stated regarding them. J. D. Yerrington of New York city has had a
brown diamond weighing 1 carat, that will yield, when cut, a gem
weighing 1/3 carat, which was found near Philadelphos, Ariz. Two pieces
of blue bottle-glass that had been rolled so as to lose all form, were
naturally supposed by the finder to be sapphires, being in the same
locality with the diamond. It is stated that three diamond crystals
were obtained many years ago on Koko Creek, at the headwaters of the
Tellico River, in East Tennessee, on the " bench lands " of the Smoky
or Unaka Mountains. If this statement be correct, it probably points to
a western extension of the diamond-belt of North Carolina, or to the
transportation of the stones thence by streams.
In
1884, quite an excitement was aroused in Wisconsin by a reported
diamond-discovery at Waukesha, in that State. A Milwaukee jeweler
purchased for $ 1 from a lady, a stone which he stated was a topaz. It
was said to have been found at a considerable depth, in digging a well
on the property of the lady's husband, at Waukesha, some years before.
Subsequently it was thought to be a diamond, and as the first ever
found in Wisconsin was valued at a high price and made the basis of
much local excitement and speculation. The land where it was found was
purchased at an increased price and two other small diamonds were
produced as from the same locality. The gravel in which they were
claimed to occur was simply the ordinary glacial drift of the whole
region, and the diamonds have the aspect of being African stones. In
1888, it was announced that a fine and large diamond of over 80 carats
had been found by a laborer while attending a bowlder-crushing machine
in Cincinnati. The theory was advanced that it might be the stone lost
in 1806, at Blen-nerhassett Island, by Mrs. Clark, and described by
Aaron Burr in a letter to his daughter. The story lacks foundation.
Another instance is that of a stone, supposed to be a diamond, found
in working for coal a few years since at Ponca,
