text: ' Among the models of celebrated gems here shown him he particularizes a jewel which for ages has been the wonder of the East--"the famous _Koh-in-Noor_ (Mountain of Light ) now in the possession of the ruler of Lahore and well known to have been forcibly seized by him from Shah-Shoojah king of Cabul when a fugitive in the Panjab;" as well as another (the Pigot diamond ) "now belonging to Mohammed Ali of Egypt