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INTRODUCTION.

THERE are few things in history that at first sight appears so remarkable as the prodigious value, which, by common consent, in all ages, and in all civilized countries, has been attached to the Diamond.

Among ornaments and luxuries it has ever occupied the highest rank. Even Fashion, proverbially capricious as she

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