Show curious domestic mineral A curious mineral recently found in north carolina has been described in iho newspapers is a diamond in emerald it is bow in possession of sir J 1 of new york who said with ichard to it it is a crystal of emerald an inch by nn inch and a half face what hns been called a diamond is merely a piece of quartz crystal which is embedded firmly in tho emerald tho crystal is about iwo thirds the size of the emerald and appears to laivo been driven into it neither itono is very pure and alicy are only valuably ablo a specimens this sort of crystal is commonly billed a diamond in north carolina but as yet no real diamonds have boan found there although various kinds of precious atones have from time to time been discovered many of these emeralds of rare color called in honor of mr hidden lindi anro found in a small mine at stony point which was opened about two years ago and lias been worked moro or leas ciuco that fmc tho emeralds are found in pencils of various sizes somo aro of a dark preen color but most of them anro pilo green some of the pencils arc very large thu largest being eight and three fourth inches long in the same vicinity leave been found garnets ru tiles aqui marinc topaz and oilier precious stones there isonio reason to suppose that the dewey diamond the largest diamond ever found in lie united which was cut by the morse diamond hulting company in camo from carolina although it was found by an irish laborer in manchester va shan Sh cn found it wa was s im bedded in a curious lone known as ila colu large quantities of which in ledges lire found in north carolina it appears that a loid of this stone taken to manchester for assaying and it is conjectured that this dieco in which alio llio diamond was im bedded lind dropped from tho bait on the wiy it weighed 23 barats carats and cut 11 11 the cutting cost sloko and alic itono stono itself may be roughly estimated sv worth A curious peculiarity of this ita is that it is a flexible stone I 1 have a chunk of it that will bend both ways the stone is a coarse sandstone and may be fur building purposes mr derby a native of diw york and a graduate of university who is employed by dom pedro as acil ogist of ll visited the brict of carolina and said that it lio had been taken to the place blindfolded and on alie bandage acing removed had been asked ho was lie should have said unhesitatingly alint lie was in the diamond district of israfil axil he did not however find any diamonds in north carolina the following lines on which is sometimes called alic american emerald were written by hie rev W 11 rogers rector of chapel manchester england tor rears from til dalit it bajt iy ay hm jan inena cant to abou now tho ot to ort tia tho discoverer y v sun |