Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 114
een cut, than ispresented by Fig. 39, in which the different viewsof the Star of the South, in its rough state, aretaken from drawings made by the illustrious miner-alogist M. Dufrenoy. Figures are also given of thediamond as it now appears. Among the diamonds found in Brazil are threefamous stones… … Fig- 39 — Star of the South, before and after cutting. says that it weighs 1680 carats. And in Brazil itsvalue is estimated at 11,395,000,000. Only — it has 94 PRECIOUS STONES. been suggested, that this diamond is a topaz, inwhich case the millions vanish. No one is allowed to behold this diamond,…
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