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MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. 
iMP*’ 
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fine ‘crystals called Bristol stones, or dia'I®' 
of which are so hard as to cut glass, and are c- jj, P: 
clear, colourless, and brilliant. When set in '•’''’=*^li5i> j 
uatural state, these have appeared of as high * sli'' 
lustre as if they had been wrought by tlic fO y 
lapjdary._ (Jlci'Y 
Bristol is surrounded by coal-pits, those of 
shire being E* Kingswood, and those of Som^'* a,e'' 
minster, Ashton, Nailsea, and Brislingtoii. ^ 
lltlllbicij JTLSUIUIJ^ i.\dUaCdy dliU 
•npious supply is from Kingswood, where 
number of pit.s and colliers’ houses, which last •. 
- - - - - • iwY 
^inent, that Kingswood, viewed from the 
lulls, has the appearance of being one vast rural 
Bristol. 
DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONE*' , 
1 N addition to the information relative to DiaNP 
nt p. 259, et seq. of this work, the reader 
be gratified by some curious particulars reiai' 
and the other more precious gems, drawn fro’U 
treatise of Mr. Mawe, on this interesting subjed’^^y 
In the history of the human race, there are 
which at first sight appear so remarkable, as the P j ill 
an' 
value which, by common consent, in all ag®*’ ^ 
civilized countries, has been attached to the d'aP po\ ^ 
a house witli a large estate, the means of llviHojjjga y 
at ease but in splendour, should be set in 
and even be deemed inadequate to the purchas® 
parent crystallized stone, not half the size 
seems almost a kind of insanity. It would, yjtb 
deserve tliis name, if the purchaser were to p®' ''' 
the seller would acquire by such a transfer- jy ^ 
consciousness of possessing a diamond of jj Y 
quarters of an ounce weight, a country j aP j/ 
pay ninety thousand pounds in ready money, ■ j . , . 
ity ot four thousand pounds besides, he 
servedly, incur some risk of a statute of 
only the above sum was given, but a patent ot Y 
the bargain, by the Empress Catliarine ot 
famous diamond of Nadir Shah. In this 
cal'" 
although the seller acquired much, the 
undergo any personal privation ■, and, in reini ;■ 
