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Numb. $\ 



Is the figure of the fore-mention'd Diamond, after it was cut on both fides - 

 there remaining 94 Carats and a half ^ the water being perfecl. The fiat- fide' 

 where there were two flaws below, was as thin as a fheet of brown-paper : When 

 the Stone was cut, I caus'd all that thin fide to be taken off^ with one part of the 

 end above, where there remains one little fpeck of a flaw. 



Numb. 6. 



Is another Diamond which I bought at the Mine of Contour. It is fair and 

 clean, and weighs 36 Mangelins, or 63 and 3 %ths of our Carats. 



Numb. 7 and 8. 



Are two pieces of a Stone that was cut in two, which being entire,, weigh'd yc 

 Mangelins and a half or 104 Carats. Though it were of a good water, it Jeem'd 

 fo foul in the middle, that, in regard it was large, and held at a high price, there 

 was ne're a Banian would venture upon it. At length an Hollander bought it, 

 and cutting it in two, found in the middle of it eight Carats of filth like a rotten- 

 weed. The fmall piece happen'd to be clean, excepting a little flaw hardly to be 

 perceiv'd, but for the other, wherein there are fo many other croft flaws, there 

 was no way but to make feven or eight pieces of it. The Hollander ran a great 

 rifco in cutting it a-fundcr $ for it was very great luck that it had not broke into 

 a hunder'd pieces. Yet for all that it did not turn to account -, fo that it is in vain 

 for another to buy that which a Baman refufcs. 



CKAP. XX. 



The Fofrns of twenty Rubies which the Author [old to the King 

 upon his loft return from the Indies. The firft fart of the Tlate 

 jhews the weighty extent, and thickness of every Stone. 



Numb. i;. 



TS the Figure of a Ruby that belongs to the King of Ferfia. It is in fliape 

 * and bignefs like an Egg, boar'd through in the middle, deep colour'd, fair 

 and clean, except one flaw in the fjde. They will not tell you what it coft, 

 nor let you know what it weighs; only it appears by the Regifter that it 

 has been leveral years in the Kings Treafury. + 



Numb. 2. 



Is the Figure pf a Battels Ruby ; fohi for fuch to Giafer-Kan, the Great Mo- 

 guls Uncle, who paid 9^0000 Roupies, or 1425-000 Livres for it. But an ok} /»- 

 dian JeWdler affir'min& afterwards, that it was no Ballet s Ruby, that it was not 

 worth above f/oti Roupifcs, and that Glafer-kpn was cheated j and his opinion being 

 confirmed by Sbaythan, the molt skilful in Jewels of any perfon in the Empire, 

 uiurefig-^eb CtfmpelPd the Merchant to take it again, and to reftore the Money 

 back; 



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Numb. 3, and 44 



Is is the Figure of Ruby belonging to the King of Vifafour. Numb. 4, is 

 *h& height of the Stone above the Gold; And Numb. 3, is the ronndnefi of the 



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