Diamonds and Precious Stones: A Popular Account of Gems ...Scribner, Armstrong,, 1876 - 292 Seiten |
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Seite 40 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Seite 39 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Seite 97 - East India Company, in part payment of the debt due by the State of Lahore to the British Government, and of the expenses of the war. 3rd. — The Gem called the Koh-i-noor, which was taken from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk by Maharajah Ranjit Singh, shall be surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.
Seite 96 - Aurengzebe was in the possession of Mohammed Shah at the time of the Persian invasion ; and if it was it most certainly changed masters, and became, as is universally asserted, the property of Nadir Shah, who is also said to have bestowed upon it the name of Koh-i-noor. After...
Seite 244 - Imitation gems are extensively manufactured. The base of one class of imitations is a peculiar kind of glass of considerable hardness, brilliancy and refractive power called paste or strass. When the strass is obtained very pure it is melted and mixed with substances having a metallic base, generally oxides, which communicate to the mass the most varied colors. Another class often fraudulently offered for sale as genuine stones are made by cementing thin plates of precious materials over and sometimes...
Seite 74 - Lastly, the table shows that, absolutely, the price of diamonds was nearly the same in 1606 as in 1867; but when we take into account the difference in the value of money...
Seite 96 - Kunjet was highly elated by the acquisition of the diamond, and wore it as an armlet at all great festivals. When he was dying, an attempt was made by persons about him to persuade him to make the diamond a present to Jagannuth, and it is said that he intimated assent by an inclination of his head.
Seite 97 - Koh-i-Noor was preserved for awhile for his successors. It was occasionally worn by Rhurreuk Sing and Shu Sing. After the murder of the latter, it remained in the Lahore treasury until the supercession of Dhulip Sing, and the annexation of the Punjaub by the British Government, when the civil authorities took possession of the...
Seite 57 - It is pleasant," says Tavernier, "to see the children of these merchants and of other people of the country, from the age of ten to that of fifteen or sixteen, coming every morning and seating themselves under a large tree in the market-place of the town. Each has his diamond weights in a little pouch hanging at one side, and at the other side a purse attached to his girdle, and containing in some cases as many as six hundred gold pagodas. There they sit and wait until some one comes to sell them...
Seite 96 - Sing, who spared neither importunity nor menace, until, in 1813, he compelled the fugitive monarch to resign the precious gem, presenting him on the occasion, it said, with a lakh and ¡25,000 rupees, or about 12,000/.