discover the "acres of diamonds" that is within your reach with this powerful book that has made it #1 bestseller!â  reminiscent of the ancient aesop, this book teaches lessons with its stories. the story about diamonds tells us how we tend to look very far for things we want whenâ  they could actually be in our backyard. includes resell rights book excerpts: i was greatly interested in that account in the newspaper of the young man who found that diamond in north carolina. it was one of the purest diamonds that has ever been discovered, and it has several predecessors near the same locality.â  i went to a distinguished professor in mineralogy and asked him where he thought those diamonds came from. the professor secured the map of the geologic formations of our continent, and traced it. he said it went either through the underlying carboniferous strata adapted for such production, westward through ohio and the mississippi, or in more probability came eastward through virginia and up the shore of the atlantic ocean.â  it is a fact that the diamonds were there, for they have been discovered and sold; and that they were carried down there during the drift period, from some northern locality. now who can say but some person going down with his drill in philadelphia will find some trace of a diamond mine yet down here? oh, friends! you cannot say that you are not over one of the greatest diamond mines in the world, for such a diamond as that only comes from the most profitable mines that are found on earth.