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 ferior prices. The following fact came under my own observation. A lot of sixty carats was offered for sale to a jeweller, who requested they might be left for examination, that their value might be ascertained. When the gentleman called again, he was informed that the Diamonds had been estimated by a workman at thirty-two shillings per carat. The owner, having given much more for them, appeared a little disappointed; some explanatory remarks were then thrown out respecting their inferiority, and a higher offer was made, which was declined. The same diamonds were afterwards disposed of at forty-eight shillings per carat!