Diamonds and Precious Stones: A Popular Account of Gems ...Scribner, Armstrong,, 1876 - 292 Seiten |
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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 - According to the family and popular tradition Mohammed Shah wore the Koh-i-Noor in front of his turban at his interview with his conqueror, who insisted on exchanging turbans in proof of his regard. However this might have been, we need have little doubt that the great diamond of...
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 57 - There they sit and wait until some one comes to sell them diamonds, it may be from the vicinity, or from some other mine. When anyone comes with something for them he places it in the hands of the eldest of the boys, who is, as it were, the chief of the band. He looks at it, and hands it to the one next him, and so it passes from hand to hand...
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 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/.
Seite 86 - They attribute to it the miraculous power of curing all diseases f'S- 35- — The Nizam. by means of the water in which it has been dipped. On one occasion, according to Jamieson, the governor of Borneo offered for it $150,000, two large warbrigs with their guns and ammunition, a certain number of guns, and a quantity of powder and shot. But the rajah refused to part with it. India has in its possession another famous diamond, the Nizam (Fig. 35), a rough diamond weighing 340 carats, and estimated...