Book H. 



Travels in Iniha. 



The Example. 



1 S 



1 S 



7î 



12 s 



8o 



i o o o o livres. 



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

 Stone. For if that Stone of 15 Carats were perfect, the fécond multiplication 

 fliould be wrought by 150, which is the price of a perfect Stone of one Carat : 

 and then the Diamond would come not to ioooo Livres, but to 33750 Livres, 

 that is 237^0 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 Afia> belonging to the Great Mogul - 3 the other in Europe 3 

 in the polfeflfion of the Duke of Txjcany. . 



The Great Mogul's Diamond weighs 279 and 9 i6tb 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 150 j and fo by the 

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

 weigh no more than 279 Carats, it would not be worth above 1 1676150 Livres, 

 fo that the nine \6ths comes to 47128 Livres., 14 Sous, and 3 Liards. 



The Great Duke of Tufiany's Diamond weighs 139 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 da not value the firft Carat above 135 Livres; fo 

 that by the rule the Diamond ought to be worth 2608 335 Livres. 



A Diamond by the Miners is call'd Iri t which the Turkj, Persians and Arabians 

 call Almas, 



CHAP. XVÏ. 



Of Colour d Stones, and the Tl.ices where they are found. , 



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

 within tfre Kingdor^ of Pegu, and the Ifland of Ceylan. The firft is a Moun- 

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

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

 and Elpinels, 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 foft, 

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

 efteem. . 



Siren is the name of the City where the King of Pegu refides ; 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 reafon the 

 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 5 the whole Re- 

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

 all the Stones that are there found, you fhall hardiy fee one of three or four Ca- 

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