Rubies and diamonds, and _The Man Who Would be King_

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/31/2007 07:48 AM, you wrote:
>Wouldn't it be more interesting (though less vivid) if hail-stones
>and tumors were measured in diamond-carat equivalents instead of the
>traditional pea-, marble-, golfball-, grapefruit-/softball-, etc. sizes?

In 18th-century newspapers I've read of hailstones larger than turkey
eggs or large walnuts, although sometimes they are merely "of a
considerable bigness".  (The usual in the newspapers, however, is a
measurement in inches.)

Joel

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