Samuel Franklin Emmons 



ticated discovery had been made 

 of diamonds in sufficient quantity to 

 affect the diamond markets of the 

 world. Although its position was 

 kept carefully concealed, through the 

 intimate knowledge of the country 

 possessed by his assistants, King 

 was enabled to determine that it 

 must be located in an area already 

 surveyed by them, and at once fitted 

 out a party to examine it. When 

 this examination, undertaken prima- 

 rily in the interest of science, had 

 proved that the alleged discovery was 

 an elaborate and skillfully planned 

 fraud, it was his prompt action and un- 

 shakable integrity alone that averted 

 a financial disaster which threatened 

 to rival that of the Mississippi Bubble 

 of Law. 



In the many important mining 



suits in which he served as scientific 



adviser, and which involved most 



difficult and complicated problems of 



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