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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 27, 31 January 1880, Page 5

A story comes from Parteall, India, where diamonds are ; usually found — Gfolconda being the "place where they are merely cut and polished — that the largest diamond in the world has lately been! di^covei*edJtnerie.A. jIC is v said to weigh 4000 carats, 33 carats more than the iamous sfcon6 : ' "belbnging to the B^ah of Mattan: ITfieTßtory is, in all prbbabinty, much^igger; than the diamond, and bpth -v^jl^]|e^ke]y to dimmiaH I, under* [(Bajrefajl ieiamiiaition. 'Great diamonda are ist6Mtin|;becauie they nearly always- haye; furious and romantic histories. The Eegent^pr Pitt diamond, 136f - caratSi* cut, J ;found is Hyderabad, waa taken to England by Pitt, graipidfathe^pf tfee ; .fi^sf^Earl of Chatham, and aold by him to the Dnc d'Orleana for a. .sum requivalent to $650,000. Itornatnented the SWord hilt of Napoleon^ waß.; taken .by the Pruasian^ at Waterloo^.^nd is ' no^ among the crown jewels of the Emperor of Germany.- The Sanci, another celebrated stone, once belonged to Charles the Bold, Duke 1 of 3urgun'dy, who wore it in his hat at the (battle of Nancy, where he felL It then- pasfied

to $M9mfal&itel!&&tog of P( itfa* gal, and he.— being embarrassed, 4.u ? urJJ'loPl^^Sfe-IWb^ftiP).!^^ 1 it WAS purchased, »f|ep/7d««ejp >y^s» .-•;.s i> rrasa "iiJ£roifp§Ti gim ,15'w^amri't -V Eu^ian .^b^msin, 1 4() r^, Qo(^and, js. r " ? 7* paicl to_DeWg ! f^pw toi^ne^f^is _, p )irs. "■ i^ f As 'ifc'iaTtpo vafuabre' for J almoßc V i njr(JCo«<?o» x^me«\ r ( ihatf the.. lrißh jn t>; - ', fe^^P ca¥ be d(M^ «« \ to enkbW Weffi "to^migrate