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Bv that it is eafy to difcover the difference between a perfect and an imperfect 

 Stone For if that Stone of i? Carats were perfect, the fecond multiplication 

 fhould be wrought by i jo, which is the price of a perfed Stone of one Carat : 

 and then the Diamond would come not to ioooo Livres, but to 337jo Livres, 

 that is 2?7c o Livres more than an imperfect Diamond of the fame weight. 



By this rule obferve the price of two the greateft Diamonds of the World for 

 Cut-ftones, the one in AJta t belonging to the Great Mogul; the other in Europe, 

 in the poflTeiTion of the Duke of T^/. 



The Great MoguPs Diamond weighs 279 and 9 16th Carats. It is of a perfect 

 good water of a good fhape, with only a little flaw in the edg of the cutting be- 

 low which goes round about the Stone. Without that flaw, the firft Carat were 

 worth 160 Livres, but for that reafon I reckon it not at above 1 jo ; and fo by the 

 rule it comes to 11723278 Livres, 14 Sous, and 3 Liards. Did the Diamond 

 weieh' no more than 279 Carats, it would not be worth above 1 16761 jo Livres, 

 fo that the nine i6tks comes to 4-128 Livres, 14 Sous, and 3 Liards. 



The Great Duke of lufcanfs Diamond weighs 1 3 9 Carats, clean and well- 

 fhap'd cut in facets every way: but in regard the water enclines fomewhat to- 

 ward the colour of Citron, I do not value the firft Carat above 13 j Livres 5 fo 

 that by the rule the Diamond ought to be worth 2608 3 3 j Livres. 



A Diamond by the Miners is call'd /r/, which the Turks, Perjtans and Arabians 

 call Almas. 



CHAP. XVI. 



Of Colour d Stones, and the T laces where they are found. 



THere are but two places in all the Eaft where Colour'd- Stones are found, 

 within the Kingdom of Pegu, and the Ifland of CejUm. The firft is a Moun- 

 tain twelve days journey, or there-abouts, from Siren, toward the North-eaft; 

 the name whereof is Capelau. In this Mine are found great quantities of Rubies, 

 and Efpinels, or Mothers of Rubies, yellow Topazes, blew and white Saphirs, Ja- 

 cinths! Amethyfts* and other Stones of different colours. Among thefe Stones 

 which are hard, they find, other Stones of various colours, that are very loft, 

 which they call Bacan in the language of the Countrey, but are of little or no 



" S>™'n is the name of the City where the King of Pegu refides j and Ava is the 

 Port of his Kingdom. From Ava to Siren you go by water in great flat-bottom d- 

 Barks, which is a voyage of fixty days. There is no going by land, by reaion me 

 Woods are full of Lions, Tigers, and Elephants. It is one of the pooreft Coun- 

 treys in the World, where there is no Commodity but Rubies } the whole re- 

 venue whereof amounts not to above a hunder'd-thoufand Crowns. Among 

 all the Stones that are there found, you (hall hardly fee one of three or four Ca- 



rats 



