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fincnefs exceeds even that of Popajatu and Ankahulu. This 

 place, however, is little frequeqted, becaufe the fmall river 

 near which it is fituated is i|ot navigable, and the inhabitants 

 are obliged to carry their provlfions on their backs along a 

 difficult and dangerous road. Befides, the miners often find 

 in this place a great deal of copper, which, when they have 

 no acid to put it to the teft, often deceives them, as they at 

 firft take it to be gold. This is the only mine on the north 

 or north-weft fide where copper is found. Near Bevool^ on 

 the fouth or fouth-weft fic'e, there is another where good 

 copper is dug up in duft, which is as fine as the fineft gold- 

 duft. In the mines of Bombula, Balodulang, Ankahulu, and 

 Patella, a great cTeal of rock-cryftal is fqui;d, and likewjfe ii 

 kind of iron ore. 



In almoft all the mines which the before-mentioned Mr. 

 Diihr vifited, he obferved, that the workmen, when they had 

 dug to the depth of five, and in fome places of twelve feet, 

 came to a horizontal ftratum of rock, which with their jn- 

 ftruments they were not ab|e to penetrate. They, however, 

 frequently told him, that they firmly believed that they fhould 

 find gold below thefe rocks, if they could break through them. 

 JFIe law alfo at Ankahulu, where a ftratuni of fuch rock is 

 found, at the depth of from twelve to fifteen fpet, thai there 

 were fifllircs in it, two or three inches wide, which contained 

 a blackifh fubftance almoft like ruft of iron, mixed with a 

 great many pieces of gold, and which the workmen, after 

 they waftied the rock perfectly clean, dugout to as great a 

 depth 3S they could with their tools. In all the mines of 

 Celebes, the gold, when "feparated froip the fand, is of confi- 

 derablc fipcncfs. At Pogiama and Palella alone gold ore is 

 found here and there, mixed among other ftones ; but it is 

 not rich, and the gold muft be extraftcd bv pounding the 

 ftone, which is not very hard. 



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