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Have you heard tell of the famous diamond of Abaete, which was valued at more than two million contos of reis? Well, this stone, which weighed an ounce, came from the Brazilian mines! And they were three convicts yes! three men sentenced to transportation for life who found it by chance in the River Abaete, at ninety leagues from Terro de Frio."
The loose stones at the bottom of the stream are first raked up into baskets, and then carefully washed, under the inspection of the overseers. In one district it is calculated that, from 1730 to 1830, diamonds worth upwards of three millions sterling were collected; and in that of Abaete, in 1791, a diamond weighing 1382 carats the largest in the world was discovered.
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