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escaped destruction, in the cutting,) which had been the pre of his in- 
terference with the affairs of Golconda, and had been perhaps the ulti- 
grain. It is obviously useless to multiply so small a number by 120, 
T we could expect no accurate result, owing to the exaggeration of 
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and eight of these equal 596 grains, or 187:58 carats.* The Koh-i-] oor 
in the Exhibition of 1851 weighed 186 carats. This would require a 
Mr, Maskelyne went on to trace its subsequent history. 
_ It remained at Delhi, until another, the fiercest and the last of the great 
i India. 
The history of Thamas Kouli Khan, Nadir Shab, is sufficiently near to 
the present sas to fall almost within the field of European contest in In- 
dia. Thi 
a nsman” on the throne of Delhi, and exchanged 
turbans with him,—so says tradition,—in sign of eternal amity. The 6 
diamond of the Moguls was in the cap of, the vassal, and was salut oe 
the title of Koh-i-Noor, “ Mound of Light” by his suzerain. It went 
* The carat = 3°17 grains Troy weight. 
