The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-07-26
About Diamonds,

- London shopkecper is exhibiting at tie
/ IhfystaI Palace a caskrt containing A Llue dia-
nond weighing ! II grains, mounted M a medal
( non, surmouned 10y billiants and sypposcd from,
It's SIZE and color to be unique Commenting up
! on tins the LoHdon Times saws that the diamond
Whrh IN It's pure state is transparent and color
iesH ana consists of pure carbon When 1t has
'"'o' " Always contains some foreign matter such
"S Tue oxides ni metals which exist in 1t IN veiy
minute proportions. lit were practicable to lq
MY pare charcoal and allow 1t TO chrystalizc in
cooling, We should produce diamonds artifciaIy.
Dut no climts iaft have ever vet accomplished
thIs.
II was towards The cnd Of She fifteenth ccn'l-
ry that The art Of cutting diamonds was discover.
eI by rnb5ng them against one another, and pol
l'h"ns them with their own powder, whcnc, All
sc' ue adage Of diamond out diamond These
operations are now abridged by two methods.
INST hy avalng ourselves of the direction Of the
lamh" OF the stone or what il called in the sci.
ehce 81 chry autobiography its planes Of cleavage,
I" spHt them 50 ~ 10 produce several ficcts-
some stones which seem to belong TO the cbrys.
tale, called .Koc'e resist this mode Of cleavage
ana are called diamonds of nature 4 second
method Of cutting the diaiuong i, by saving It bv
means OF an extremely fue Virc coated with dia.
mond powder
The mode Of valuiug diamonds is extremely
c-cds n certain Iir,;, ,,c,'ri;,,,, Wv,
spccjc, of di,r,,rj L,s = 80. ,'.''
ULe upit q, di.,,,o,d ,,,'I,I,N .I - ."'"'
crease, in nrnpor,inn o. ,b s,,1,,',,s
Thus if tho r,,,rLer oS ,,,
diamonds bn All n s,,,,,,a'; u ""
the ,anc op,,i,y ,ba,r ,aia III w. '"'''' w. 's VI
portion of "a ,o zoo, h.,, ,h,, H., o' ~ ;'I
comes 50 o,,,,,nc,,,..J ,io, a., ,''e M.s". "e
Inrr,, ,,ri,,o .,.,,., ,r ,,,al ~ ~ -
usually fonnd in th. diamond ,,o,2a, ,ls ,'oTr /
If valuation cannot H.. ,r,iio5
The ,.lue ,,o,. c,r,, ,i,,,.I. ,,,,o,, ,r ,,..r;,
Of the slouc ,yli,h i, .,,b;oc, :, ,,ca, ,,Ii,a,i
The diamond. If FIN. rrrrL, ,,.p aro ,L',I,.I,
rolorlcss. There are o,Icrs yLich nro ,,,,,od
more ar loss viii ,,,,t, ,,,,,,o lI,o Ill, -,
some are even LIa,k ,r rn,ln,o LI,cGis,, lr,'n.,'
The most volr,hIc If ,be cn,,'I
If rose or ,,;L i'm, nIici ~ .o,,o s''o,'
,rod in nric, iho mas, En,,J ,ta,',i, ~ ,',
raj rul. IN. L,,,.r a,,, ,',., i,iI,s,; e11'
most ordinary os ,Ir cni,raj ,I;a11,ir,J. ,ro u'a
yellow. which sometimes becomc, So Io,l in
color as 10 onrroocb A uactish Lronr TLo,"
are but tv, dis, riots uror ,bo ,,Iho ,h,r, J,a
uopd m,pcs car he s,,I H. I,H, m,,l De-
,il-the former of which h,. boon cc,chra,i sro,,
Inc ,no., ,c,ro,. o,,i,,,,;,, o a., ~, ~:
nrnds. IN. rrnci,,J n,nos arc j., G,,Iro,'ia u'i,
md Vizarour extending frn,r C,,,. Com,r;n ="
Bengal nj the foot of chain of n,n,r, ,;ns coI,d
he Okla. These gems nre so Ji.nrr.eJ in ,Ln
oil where they ,yist that ,hoy mr.. r,,,.I, c,nnJ
lircctlv, even in searching the riches, .no,s Le
ausc they are snyelopc1 in nm .or,hiv ems, :
which must bc ,cn,oysJ h,f,,a ,ho,. ca, h. sa'n ;
Til, earth is washed in basins and snreaJ on,
o dry. after whicI, the diamonds ore r,cocuizsJ ,
" thclr Spanking in ,hc sru ,
d
nav, tbc n,cnlin, ,r ha,,,'i,', ,,hN,,
,sc,,, at, .oIr Iii - s i,'l's
irb, All Ji,u"nJ, hl w vAlo'Ine W ''e SUI ;
-" Hn u'''"unuS' however 30 not possess q
asy to render it manifest. The diamond re. =,
luIrgs In ha pNnpenI D., ,b, .,,,,', l.,,,,. I